Common Motors continues its assault on the high-end EV class with the 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ. An electrical tackle the three-row Escalade luxurious SUV, the Escalade IQ was launched in New York on Wednesday.

The one relation to the gas-powered Escalade is the title, because the Escalade IQ has its personal design, platform, inside, and drivetrain.

Just like the GMC Hummer EV and the following Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Sierra EV, the Escalade IQ goes large on energy and battery measurement. A pair of motors, one entrance and one rear, ship as much as 750 hp and 785 lb-ft of torque, present all-wheel drive, and launch the car to 60 mph in lower than 5 seconds. The highest energy and efficiency figures can be found in a mode Cadillac calls Velocity Max, and in Regular mode the scores are 680 hp and 615 lb-ft. A one-pedal driving mode is a part of a regenerative braking system that Cadillac calls Variable Regen on Demand. Cadillac estimates the max towing capability at 8,000 kilos.

The motors are fed by the identical Ultium 24-module, 200-plus-kwh (we estimate 205 kwh) battery from the Hummer EV Pickup, and Cadillac is quoting a variety of 450 miles. The car has an 800-volt structure that may add 100 miles of vary in 10 minutes on a 350-kw DC quick charger. It could possibly additionally settle for a cost of as much as 19.2 amps on a 240-volt outlet, which Cadillac says provides 37 miles per hour. As well as, it presents bidirectional charging capacity that may cost house items provided by way of GM Power’s Ultium House merchandise. 

2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ

The Escalade IQ could also be distinctive from its fuel sibling, however the household resemblance continues to be there, with a tall, blocky form, an extended, high-set hood, and the model’s signature vertical headlights and taillights. The nostril sports activities a “crystal protect” as a substitute of a grille, but it surely’s nonetheless within the form of the Cadillac protect brand. The roofline can be completely different, with a higher general slope and a gentler downward angle on the rear as a substitute of the blocky look and sharp downward flip on the rear of the fuel mannequin. General, it has a 15% decrease coefficient of drag than the fuel mannequin.

Patrons can select from seven colours, together with black, and a black roof is obtainable for all. It’s all set on large 275/50R24 tires, which measure 35 inches in diameter and refill the big wheel wells.

Cadillac sizes the Escalade IQ between the regular- and long-wheelbase variations of the fuel mannequin, however at 224.3 inches lengthy it is inside 2.7 inches of the lengthy wheelbase model. The IQ’s wheelbase is definitely 2.1 inches longer than the Escalade L’s at 136.2 inches, partially as a result of the entrance wheels are moved ahead 11.8 inches, which additionally reduces the entrance overhang.

2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ

Nonetheless, inside house is near the usual Escalade, principally as a result of Cadillac moved the greenhouse again nearly 11 inches. Cargo house tops out at 119.2 cubic toes behind the primary row in comparison with 121 cubes in the usual Escalade. Nonetheless, the lengthy hood makes room for a 12.2-cubic-foot frunk. It’s an extended, however shallow aperture that Cadillac says can maintain two golf luggage.

Beneath, the Escalade IQ contains a four-corner air suspension and the fourth-generation of GM’s magnetic dampers. The air suspension can elevate the trip peak 1.0 inch and decrease it 2.0 inches. A brief-arm, long-arm impartial suspension controls wheel motion entrance and rear. Commonplace rear-wheel steering shortens the turning circle by about 6.5 toes, to 39.4 toes, in line with Cadillac, and permits the car to maneuver diagonally in Cadillac Arrival mode to make it simpler to get into or out of parking spots. It’s all constructed on an EV-specific platform that makes the battery a part of the construction.

2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ

Inside, the Escalade IQ has a high-tech dashboard with a full-width 55.0-inch financial institution of digital screens. It consists of a digital instrument cluster and heart touchscreen that account for 35.0 inches, and a 20.0-inch passenger display screen. Beneath that on the middle console is a further 11.0-inch touchscreen to manage local weather and car settings, together with accessible power-opening doorways. These doorways can open routinely as the motive force approaches, and Cadillac additionally features a power-opening cost port activated with a contact. An ordinary panoramic fixed-glass roof offers the cabin an ethereal really feel.

The shows are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Cockpit Platform and run a Google-based system with Unreal Engine graphics and Google Constructed-in, Google Assistant, Google Maps, and Google Play. It doesn’t embody assist for Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, a transfer GM introduced in April.

2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ

Commonplace seating is for seven, with both second-row captain’s chairs or an Govt Second Row package deal with rear bucket seats that mirror the entrance seats and have heating, cooling, and therapeutic massage capabilities. The package deal additionally features a rear heart console with fold-out airline-style tables, a pair of 12.6-inch rear leisure screens, a pair of wi-fi smartphone chargers to go together with the 2 that come commonplace up entrance, and its personal 8.0-inch touchscreen for consolation controls, together with power-opening rear doorways. In all variations, the upholstery is artificial leather-based.

A 19-speaker AKG audio system is commonplace and degree 2 gear comes with a 36-speaker AKG system. That will increase to 40 audio system with the Govt Second Row package deal that provides two audio system in every second-row headrest.

GM’s Tremendous Cruise hands-free driver-assist function can be commonplace (although just for three years), as are blind-sport displays with steering help, a surround-view digital camera system, computerized parking, and computerized emergency braking with pedestrian and bicyclist detection.

The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ is because of hit the market in the summertime of 2024. It is going to be offered in Sport and Luxurious fashions, accessible in 1 and a couple of trims. Luxurious fashions can have brushed aluminum trim, whereas Sport variations can have darkened metallic finishes. Cadillac says the Escalade IQ will begin at about $130,000. Stage 2 gear will solely add to that, as will the Govt Second Row, so it may simply high the $150,000 value of the 682-hp Escalade-V.