Cadillac has a caller convertible conception EV that’s longer than immoderate SUVs, has elephantine pillar-to-pillar infotainment screens, and tin support you cool for nan summertime pinch a refrigerator successful nan backmost seat.
It’s called nan Sollei, and it’s a caller electrical conveyance concept that looks for illustration a convertible type of Cadillac’s bespoke “Celestiq” — nan automaker’s reply to exclusive luxury vehicles for illustration nan Rolls-Royce. The caller conveyance converts nan $340,000 full-size electrical sedan into a “manilla cream” coupe that tries to evoke nan sun pinch ray patterns emanating from nan halfway of each spot and from nan woody panels connected nan backmost of them.
The Sollei was shown disconnected astatine nan Cadillac House astatine Vanderbilt successful Warren, Michigan — nan aforesaid spot high-rolling customers would spell to prime nan leather and different materials erstwhile purchasing a hand-built Celestiq. The Sollei, however, takes a different and much sustainable attack to materials, for illustration utilizing biodegradable mushroom-based mycelium alternatively of leather. There are still leather-adorned accessories designed for nan car, though, including a vertebrate telephone group and leatherbound diary that lucifer nan car’s color.
It’s clear that nan Sollei is built from nan Celestiq, arsenic it shares a akin 55-inch infotainment surface cluster and animated LED destruction arsenic nan Celestiq. In a afloat walkaround video, Auto Buyers Guide says nan Sollei is “harkening backmost to nan origins of Cadillac arsenic an ultra-luxury supplier of vehicles.” Cadillac sees nan Sollei arsenic a conveyance that “pushes nan boundaries of early bespoke commissions,” though it has nary plans to waste nan conception arsenic it does nan Celestiq.