There`s a new electric Cadillac coming next year, and it`s kind of a big deal. It`s also kind of big, as you would expect from an Escalade.
Cadillac`s big, boxy Escalade SUV is an icon of American luxury and excess. It`s bigger than it has any reason to be, it packs luxurious appointments, and it cares not for efficiency. It weighs in at well over 2 tons, is nearly 18 feet long, and you have to dig through multiple layers of the Cadillac website to find that the base model gets an abysmal 16 MPG overall. It is a monument of lavish overkill.
And for the 2025 model year, it`ll also be optionally a lean, green, eco machine — the Cadillac Escalade IQ. It`s still large, and it, well, it`s a full-electric vehicle so it can also charge. And it will not be cheap.
Let`s start with the specs. At 18.7 feet it`s actually longer than the gas-powered Escalade. Cadillac hasn`t announced the weight, but it`ll be even heavier. While the current Escalade weight in at 4300 pounds, the smaller Tesla...
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