GM Designer Envisions Cadillac Lyriq’s Smaller EV Brother

With the Lyriq, Cadillac at the moment has one of many most interesting luxurious electrical SUVs on the American market. The very first examples had been delivered to prospects in america earlier this 12 months and now the model is ramping up the manufacturing of the battery-powered high-riding machine. It’s undoubtedly not low cost – the bottom rear-wheel-drive mannequin begins at $62,990 – but it surely combines a putting design with strong EV traits and loads of inside area. What if this profitable system will get remodeled right into a smaller electrical crossover?

This was most likely the query Normal Motors designer Jason Chen had in thoughts when designing the digital crossover you see connected above. The sketch comes from the automaker’s design group on Instagram and reveals a aspect view of a muscular compact utility with styling influences from the Lyriq. To a sure extent, it seems even higher because the proportions are sportier and extra aggressive – very brief overhangs, outsized wheels, and a sloped roofline on the again. 

Whereas the Lyriq is extra luxury-oriented, this unnamed idea seems like a smaller efficiency product. There are, nonetheless, main design similarities, together with the form, measurement, and angle of the C-pillar, the slim headlights, and the muscular fenders. There appears to be an excellent resemblance within the vertical LED daytime working lights too, that are a defining a part of the Lyriq’s lighting signature. We will’t inform whether or not this rendering options some type of a grille or only a closed-off panel to make the entrance fascia extra aerodynamically optimized.

Hypothetically, if this smaller electrical crossover will get the {hardware} of the Lyriq even in its base type, it might change into an actual efficiency product. With 340 horsepower (253 kilowatts) and 325 pound-feet (440 Newton-meters) of torque from a single electrical motor, the Lyriq RWD wants about 6.0 seconds to hit 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour). Theoretically, the decrease weight and higher aerodynamics of this digital crossover ought to make it even faster off the road. The Lyriq’s 100-kilowatt-hour battery pack may very well be too massive, although.