Cadillac at present unveiled the first-ever all-electric 2025 ESCALADE IQ, a reimagination of the luxurious full-size SUV expertise, brimming with iconic design, the very best degree of expertise and the newest automotive know-how.

Providing a Cadillac-estimated 450 miles of range1, the ESCALADE IQ elevates the driving expertise with a curved pillar-to-pillar 55-inch whole diagonal LED show, out there Tremendous Cruise® driver help technology2, vehicle-to-home bidirectional charging know-how with GM Power’s out there Ultium Dwelling merchandise, luxurious appointments with a daring inside and exterior design, no-compromise efficiency, and nil tailpipe emissions.

“ESCALADE IQ raises the usual simply as the unique Escalade redefined luxurious a quarter-century in the past,” mentioned John Roth, vp, World Cadillac. “This reimagining of an icon marks the subsequent step in Cadillac’s all-electric future.”

“For greater than 120 years, Cadillac’s daring modern spirit has outlined American luxurious,” mentioned Roth. “The ESCALADE IQ embodies this spirit in probably the most subtle kind.”

Daring but nimble efficiency

It’s the primary full-size SUV from Cadillac constructed on GM’s modern and modular EV propulsion structure, the Ultium Platform, and incorporates GM’s Ultifi software program platform to help and ship ongoing software program updates to its expansive applied sciences.

Its devoted EV structure allows ESCALADE IQ’s daring design and efficiency traits, from its expressive silhouette and beneficiant house — for passengers and cargo — to its driving efficiency.

Relating to efficiency, ESCALADE IQ options unbiased entrance and rear suspension, with energy transferred to 24-inch wheels with 35-inch tires by way of entrance and rear drive motors that work in conjunction as an eAWD system.

A set of absolutely built-in superior applied sciences together with Magnetic Experience Management 4.0 and Adaptive Air Experience Suspension isolate passengers from undesirable street surfaces whereas offering exact steering and really feel.

4-Wheel Steer reduces the turning diameter to solely 39.4 toes (12 meters) at decrease speeds and reduces the turning diameter by greater than 6.5 toes for better maneuverability in parking tons and tighter total turning radius. It additionally enhances dealing with and stability at increased pace, significantly when trailering.

Cadillac Arrival Mode3 is a novel 4-Wheel Steer function that permits the ESCALADE IQ to maneuver diagonally, making it simpler when pulling into or out of tight areas, whereas making a press release.

A 24-module Ultium battery serves as the muse of the ESCALADE IQ, producing greater than 200 kWh of accessible vitality. It additionally employs a versatile, high-voltage structure that allows 800-volt DC quick charging, the quickest type of charging at the moment out there, offering as much as 100 miles of vary in 10 minutes of cost time4.

ESCALADE IQ will likely be geared up with Car-to-Dwelling (V2H) bidirectional charging know-how with GM Power’s out there Ultium Dwelling merchandise, offering clients with the flexibility to ship energy immediately from the automobile to a correctly geared up house. This functionality will likely be enabled by way of an over-the-air software program replace for the 2025 mannequin 12 months. ESCALADE IQ may even supply the choice of Car-to-Load (V2L) offboard energy, permitting the automobile to energy exterior units.

The {powerful} electrical propulsion configuration — consisting of the battery pack, energy electronics and a two-motor eAWD system — gives nice energy on demand and stunning efficiency, together with:

As much as 750 horsepower (with driver-selectable Velocity Max5, Cadillac estimate)

As much as 785 lb-ft of torque (with driver-selectable Velocity Max5, Cadillac estimate)

0-60 mph in lower than 5 seconds6 (with driver-selectable Velocity Max5, Cadillac estimate)

As much as 8,000 kilos of towing capability7 (Cadillac estimate)

Moreover, ESCALADE IQ gives One-Pedal Driving8 and Variable Regen on Demand9 to permit clients to really feel extra related to their drive. Plus, Ultium Power Restoration — an modern warmth pump thermal system — permits for vitality to switch between the battery/energy electronics and the cabin, utilizing each watt attainable to optimize vary and minimizing the facility from the high-voltage battery used for five-zone local weather management.

SUPER CRUISE – THE INDUSTRY’S FIRST TRUE HANDS-FREE ADVANCED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM

ESCALADE IQ may have Tremendous Cruise2 as a normal function with three years of the OnStar Tremendous Cruise plan10. Tremendous Cruise is the trade’s first true hands-free driver help know-how that allows drivers to journey hands-free on greater than 400,000 miles of suitable roads within the U.S. and Canada.

When Tremendous Cruise is engaged, the automobile’s precision LiDAR map knowledge, real-time cameras, radars and GPS preserve the automobile touring alongside the lane path for a hands-free driving expertise. These programs work collectively by “sensor fusion” to create a sensory subject across the automobile that keeps it centered within the lane whereas elevating the driving force’s consolation and comfort.
 

ESCALADE IQ additionally encompasses a suite of ordinary lively security and driver assistance11 options, with highlights together with:

Blind Zone Steering Help: Can present a quick, agency flip of the steering wheel when a possible crash is detected with a shifting automobile within the lane the automobile is getting into

Intersection Automated Emergency Braking: Will help drivers keep away from or scale back the severity of an intersection collision with a detected cross-traffic automobile

HD Encompass Imaginative and prescient: Supplies selectable digital digicam views of the realm across the automobile and may help drivers park or keep away from autos and objects

Enhanced Automated Parking Help: Can routinely steer, brake and shift gears to park the automobile right into a devoted parallel or perpendicular parking house and may help unpark the automobile

Entrance Pedestrian and Bicyclist Braking: At speeds between 5 and 50 mph, may help drivers keep away from or scale back the severity of a collision with a pedestrian or bicyclist it detects immediately in entrance of them

“Escalade has all the time been about being daring, in order that’s what we got down to accomplish,” mentioned Mandi Damman, chief engineer, ESCALADE IQ. “ESCALADE IQ is what you get whenever you observe your soul as an alternative of the gang.”

A reimagined but acquainted presence enabled by electrification

The electrical structure allows a sleeker profile, however one with a silhouette that continues to be immediately recognizable as an Escalade. It additionally allows a decrease, flatter inside ground that contributes to ESCALADE IQ’s distinctive spaciousness.

“Our intent for the ESCALADE IQ was to amplify the Escalade DNA with a distinctively premium profile and heroic stance, whereas complementing the Cadillac EV showroom. With the pillar-to-pillar 55-inch-total-diagonal display, and out there government second row seating, the ESCALADE IQ is one other proud expression of Cadillac’s clever integration of main innovation,” mentioned Bryan Nesbitt, government director, World Cadillac Design.

GM’S MOST AERODYNAMIC FULL-SIZE SUV EVER

Along with its daring design assertion, ESCALADE IQ’s sleeker profile pays dividends on the freeway, as it’s estimated to be probably the most aerodynamic full-size SUV ever produced by GM, with an roughly 15 p.c decrease coefficient of drag than earlier generations.

That extra environment friendly aero efficiency reduces wind resistance, contributing to the Cadillac-estimated 450 miles1 of vary. Cadillac’s aerodynamicists additionally labored the smallest particulars to realize huge aero positive aspects, together with a pointy trailing fringe of Cadillac’s iconic taillights, a clean underbody, clever grille shutters that shut off airflow when it’s not wanted and even the form and profile of the wheels.

A lot of the ESCALADE IQ’s sophistication is derived from rigorously and fantastically sculpted surfaces. The design staff seemed to create a dynamic steadiness between crispness and curvature. ESCALADE IQ’s facet profile options flush facet glass and a big glass roof that provides the looks of seamless physique strains.

“Now we have added extra sculpture to each floor,” mentioned Jawook Koo, design supervisor, Cadillac Exteriors. “It appears easy, however you see a swish transition of each floor together with robust bodylines with gesture. It’s such consideration to element that makes it extra expressive.”

The clever integration of lighting reinforces ESCALADE IQ’s expressive design, serving to to deepen the connection between the client and their automobile. The ESCALADE IQ encompasses a robust vertical mild signature for each day and evening, with tall entrance daytime working mild blades and vertically oriented excessive/low beams. Dramatic lighting choreography at each strategy and departure showcases the technical prowess of Cadillac design whereas additionally creating a novel rhythm — a dynamic symphony of sunshine with a powerful refrain of LEDs.

Extra ESCALADE IQ exterior particulars embrace:

Out there energy open-and-close exterior door entry system. All 4 doorways energy open and shut on the contact of a button, and if activated, the driving force’s door will routinely open as the driving force approaches with the important thing fob

Motorized cost port door that opens routinely with a contact

Massive eTrunk compartment beneath the hood with 12 cubic toes of storage

Dynamic 24-inch wheel designs

In step with different autos within the Cadillac portfolio, ESCALADE IQ delineates itself with two personas: Luxurious and Sport. This trim technique allows the client to decide on a automobile that matches their very own persona and preferences. Every gives distinctive appearances, together with brushed aluminum metallic finishes on areas such because the wheels and exterior moldings on Luxurious, and a darkened steel end on Sport.

Prospects may choose a dramatic two-tone look by choosing the out there black-painted roof — a shocking visible distinction to the six physique colours along with black.

Ultramodern but timeless inside

The all-new ESCALADE IQ seamlessly melds considerate particulars and architectural affect with superior applied sciences, creating an inside setting befitting the long-lasting Escalade title.

“You may have by no means seen an Escalade fairly like this,” mentioned Craig Sass, design supervisor, Cadillac Interiors. “It’s a real renaissance — an immersive inside expertise that elevates the bar for the way forward for luxurious transportation.”

Impressed by the worlds of structure, upscale furnishings, style and extra, ESCALADE IQ is open, ethereal and spacious, and incorporates superior applied sciences launched on the ultra-luxury Cadillac CELESTIQ.

Highlights embrace:

A surprising, curved pillar-to-pillar 55-inch-total-diagonal LED show powered by a subsequent technology Snapdragon®12 Cockpit Platform from Qualcomm Applied sciences, Inc. creates a vibrant first impression that solely will get higher over time with intuitive digital Sensible Controls, akin to Common Distant management whenever you pull as much as your storage, which boosts the expertise. Using connectivity from Qualcomm Applied sciences’ Snapdragon® Auto 5G Modem-RF system, the ESCALADE IQ raises the bar for in-vehicle experiences. The built-in infotainment expertise is additional personalised and enhanced with Google built-in13. With Google Assistant®14, Google Maps, and Google Play, clients can entry hands-free communication, dwell visitors updates, data on close by charging stations, obtain their favourite apps and extra.

Consideration to element contains an out there Govt Second-Row Seating bundle that blends magnificence with task-oriented consolation, together with options akin to stowable tray tables, 12.6-inch-diagonal private screens, a rear command heart display, twin wi-fi telephone charging15 pads, USB-C16 and HDMI ports, massaging seats and headrest audio system.

Energy folding third row permits for seven whole passengers and folds flat for extra storage.

Spaciousness is enhanced by the panoramic mounted glass roof that spans the primary and second rows of seating, creating an immersive expertise and spectacular view for each passenger. The roof glass is tinted and handled with a UV-filtering movie that ensures the cabin stays comfy, even on shiny days.

Inside themes have a good time daring, progressive coloration combos and contrasting particulars to additional set up Cadillac’s EV persona.

Immersive, 360-degree audio expertise with out there 40-speaker AKG Studio Reference audio system when geared up with the Govt Second Row bundle. The Luxurious 2 and Sport 2 programs embrace a 36-speaker AKG Studio Reference audio system. The usual system for Luxurious 1 and Sport 1 trims is a 19-speaker AKG Studio audio system.

Moreover, the ESCALADE IQ is related by OnStar17 to raise the in-vehicle expertise by quite a lot of security, leisure, comfort and driver help applied sciences, together with out there Tremendous Cruise2.

Whether or not a buyer chooses Luxurious or Sport, each supply superior ranges of premium content material, which means each proprietor has the identical uncompromising degree of know-how and luxury, with 4 whole inside theme choices to select from.

“We pushed for extra expressive colours and extra creative trim finishes, creating fully-designed ‘themes’ the client can select,” says Sass. “Moreover, ultra-premium supplies and considerate ending touches add a tactile sensation. Certainly, each factor of the automobile is meant to deepen the connection between the client and their automobile.”

As with the outside, the dramatic inside lighting contains customizable ambient lighting with 126 coloration selections, permitting the proprietor to curate a extra private expertise. With the out there illuminated trim, even the inside décor illuminates, making a heat, inviting glow.

The inside trim options delicate detailing within the daylight, with laser-etched patterns accenting the wooden panels. They mild up at evening for a novel look and a particular aura.

‘eTRUNK’ ADDS TO ESCALADE IQ SPACIOUSNESS

Among the many many advantages of the ESCALADE IQ’s EV structure is the big entrance storage compartment enabled by the shortage of a combustion propulsion system. It gives a beneficiant 12 cubic toes of cargo room18 with house to suit two golf baggage, and extra options to extend comfort and house optimization just like the out there storage tray.

Its dimension and flexibility had been optimized by the design staff, together with incorporating the grille protect within the hood reasonably than on the entrance fascia, for a decrease liftover threshold that makes it simpler to load objects.

Crafted at Manufacturing facility ZERO

Common manufacturing of the ESCALADE IQ begins subsequent summer season at GM’s Manufacturing facility ZERO Detroit-Hamtramck Meeting Middle in Michigan, with home and globally sourced elements.

Manufacturing facility ZERO was renovated and retooled with a $2.2 billion funding to function the launchpad for GM’s EV technique.

Pricing begins at round $130,000 together with vacation spot charges19. Go to www.cadillac.com for extra data.