DETROIT – How to challenge Tesla’s hegemony in electric vehicles?  Most carmakers have been seeking to answer this question for two-three years now. After ups and downs, General Motors  thinks it has figured it out, with its high-end Cadillac brand, the Cadillac Lyriq.

Introduced in 2020, this SUV/crossover is important, even central, for the tens of billions of dollars the Detroit giant has invested in its transformation into a group producing mainly electric cars in years to come.

The Lyriq, Cadillac’s first 100% electric car, is supposed to launch the era of electrification of GM cars: Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC and Buick.

Early signals suggest things are going well and on the schedule recently advanced by GM, despite the global chip shortage, which has disrupted the supply chains of producers of autos and just about everything else.

Pre-production has started in the Spring Hill, Tenn., factory. This site initially produced Saturn models, but GM has laid out $2 billion to enable the plant to produce the Lyriq and other electric vehicles to come under the Cadillac brand.

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