Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade
Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade
arstechnica.com
Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ, one excessive EV
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Yeah, and the weight of that behemoth means a tiny fender bender accident will do massive damage to everything involved. Wouldn't be surprised if you could total itself with a 10mph impact.
E: spelling
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stupid arms race of feeling safer by being in bigger cage + policy that benefit utility vehicles as they have lenient fuel efficiency requirements
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It's an Escalade, half the appeal is for idiots who want the largest possible vehicle
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Thank you! Me too! I would love a decent market of subcompacts to choose from but it's so barren in the US and imports are $$$$$.
I can't believe they discontinued the Smart Car and there wasn't another successor ready to take over its share of consumers.
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How else am I going to get my family and my fat ass to Costco to get all my bulk foods and a pizza on my way out the door to save me multiple trips to different stores? Duh.
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There are ups and downs. If the size gives increased passenger capacity that can be the difference between needing one or two vehicles for a trip.
Big vehicles means more weight though, which means bigger batteries to get range at even more weight. The Hummer EV for example weighs 4.5t with 1400kg of that being battery. That means extra wear on tires (as well at reinforced sidewalls), roads, and additional considerations for parking garages or bridges etc
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Oh great. Another gigantic SUV. Surely what the world needs most at this point in time.
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It's an electric vehicle, why such a big front? There is no gas engine in it.
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To assert dominance and also have plausible deniability when you run someone over
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Crumple zones. I hate the look, too, but front impact crumple zones are very important, especially in such a monstrously sized vehicle. I just wish they could have sloped it to give better forward visibility.
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This is gonna be stupid heavy. My Toyota Avalon is 3,638lbs and would just get pulverized in anything more than a parking lot fender bender. For reference, the current-generation Escalade can weigh up to 6,217lbs and the Hummer EV, which the Escalade IQ might be based off of, is 9,063lbs (as mentioned in the article). This thing is going to kill people.
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9,063lbs
lol 4 ton? In my country you'd need a commercial truck driving license for that thing
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And a 55 inch touch screen. So stupid. Make simple efficient EVs and you'll sell millions.
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Someone at GM finally realized this and un-canceled the Bolt. Still waiting for VW to wake up and ship the ID3 in North America.
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I don't think VW, or any German Car brand for that matter, really wants to sell small (electric) vehicles anymore.
VW desperately wants to cancel the Up! in Europe in favour of SUVs, BMW cancelled the i3 a long time ago and only introduced either EV land yachts or giant EV SUVs since then. Mercedes just launched a new Smart EV (which is actually a Geely) but it's not exactly small.
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I want the EV equivalent of a 1983 GTI: Practical, fun, cheap, simple
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A 200kWh battery pack to get 450 miles of quoted range. 2.25mi/kWh. I understand it's competing for the attention of people who would otherwise buy a gas Escalade, but that's still a little crazy.
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Isn't it normal to have between 15-20km/KWh, that's 4-5 times less efficient. Our car obsession is showing how wasteful we are.
Not to mention that if this tank goes into an accident, the force experienced by the passengers in the other car would be a couple of times higher compared to the force experienced in the passengers of the IQ, practically making this a road kill machine.
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"I want a Hummer EV, but it just isn't ostentatious enough."
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SUVs are popular because they have emissions exemptions.. Car makers, you don't have to push this garbage anymore with electrics. Just let it go, man.
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That's ridiculous. SUVs are popular for multiple reasons.
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24 inch wheels? Jesus Christ, get ready to spend half the value of the car on tires every few years.
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The car itself is 130k, I doubt these people care or know what the wheels cost, as they have people for that.
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Right? I imagine people who own this thing dont give a fuck about that tho
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Just kill me
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Called the Escalade IQ, Cadillac has gone all-out, fitting this one with a monster battery that stores enough energy to propel this behemoth 450 miles (724 km) before it needs plugging in.
It's a clean-sheet design that uses GM's new Ultium battery platform and, in this case, the company's architecture shared by the forthcoming Chevrolet Silverado EV, among others.
There's a definite family theme shared with the other Cadillac EVs, the $60,000 Lyriq and the $340,000 Celestiq; like those cars the Escalade IQ—which starts around $130,000—uses lights to create a grille-like appearance at the front without the aero drag, and features a blanked-off D pillar.
Any doubts we're talking about a very heavy car should be dispelled when you find out the battery pack has a capacity of 200 kWh—the same as the 9,063-lb (4,110 kg) GMC Hummer EV.
The pack uses a nickel cobalt manganese aluminum chemistry, and like the Hummer EV it has a party trick where it can fast-charge at 800 V despite running at 400 V.
For a more luxurious approach for fewer passengers, the Escalade IQ can be specced with a second row that features reclining seats and fold-out tray tables.
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Electric SUVs are no better than gas trucks. The weight and shape of the vehicle require an unsustainable amount of energy. Furthermore, they give rich people the moral validation that keeps them trashing the planet with a good conscience.
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I still don't think I've ever seen a decent human being driving an Escalade...
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Are you seriously forced to use Google?
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I find it funny how the endless stream of "oh, but it's so big" comments almost universally get posted when it is an American vehicle, but rarely do you see the same level of vitriol when it is a foreign brand.
The absolutely hideous BMW XM is not that much smaller than this Escalade IQ and yet where was the endless hate and comments about its enormous size when that was released? Or the Audi Q8 or Mercedes GLS? There is an anti-American bias and it is getting rather old. It is one thing if all larger vehicles got similar hate, but some people on here are showing their bias by specifically picking out American vehicles to bash.
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Plenty to complain about with regards to euro luxury car concepts so yeah weight takes a backseat when feature subscriptions are making headlines. The XM, Q8, and GLS should also are hideously excessive vehicles but the Escalade is going to sell significantly better and so when it comes to its size the societal damage will be greater.
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