Cadillac Lyriq

GM vehicles are pretty high up on this list.

Like some of their electric vehicles, like the Cadillac Lyriq, for example?

Yeah, which we knew because GM has gotten in trouble for that for data privacy and everything in the past.

So that's not so much of a surprise.

He loved that car, but as a new grad, he couldn't keep up with the maintenance, so he let it go.

And then at the end of 2023, he leased a new Cadillac Lyriq.

Mm-hmm.

Lyriq.

Um, researchers also drove 11 electric vehicles into a car-sized Faraday enclosure to block cell signals, checking whether blocked traffic simply rerouted over Wi-Fi instead.

The vehicles sending data to the widest range of outside advertising and analytics, uh, analytics companies included the Cadillac Lyriq, the Chevy Blazer, the Lucid Air, and both the Tesla Model 3 and the Cybertruck.

The list spans old guard automakers and new EV makers alike.

The practice doesn't appear tied to one business model.

GM is now delivering production EVs to customers with battery cathode active material entirely from recycled nickel, cobalt, and manganese feedstock, moving recycled battery materials beyond prototypes or small scale into actual customer vehicles.

Things like the Cadillac Lyriq and the Escalade are getting these batteries now that are from recycling.

80 end-of-life batteries have been processed into more than 12 tons of raw cathode active material that have to meet at least the same quality as new materials.

Often, by the way, the recycled, the threshold, if you like, to meet it is, is easier.

And then so there's like...

I drove the Lyriq-V. That's roughly...

It's a little bit more expensive.

The Lyriq has a V?

... with air suspension.

You can't even get it on the, uh, the Cadillac Lyriq.

Well, that is cool feature content, but that worries me given that they're coming-

Yeah, I wouldn't