SAN FRANCISCO– Newsflash: The brand-new electrical Cadillac Escalade IQ weighs over 9,000 pounds, or a reasonable quantity more than 4,000 kgs. For context, that figure exercises to nearly precisely half once again as much as the 682 hp (509 kW) Escalade V that comes geared up with a barking-mad 6.2 L turbo charged V8. The newest and apparently biggest from Cadillac required to weigh so really much to attain a class-leading variety target of 460 miles (740 km), thanks to a 205 kWh battery pack.

The Escalade IQ shares a modular General Motors (previously Ultium) chassis and battery pack with the big Hummer EV, and a lot more hardware with the Silverado and Sierra pickup brother or sisters. Instead of attempting to draw in rugged work truck and off-roading cred, however, for Cadillac that type of variety figure appeared required to attract a “no compromise” way of life that Escalade purchasers may well anticipate while thinking about a switch to totally electrical power.

And the brand-new IQ definitely puts down a lot of immediately readily available grunt, and in spite of its mass, it can punch out a 0– 60 time in under 5 seconds with the Velocity Max button pressed, thanks to double motors ranked at 750 hp (560 kW) and 786 lb-ft (1,065 Nm).

3 rows of seats will easily seat 7 grownups, and an upcoming EQL alternative stretches simply over 4 inches longer with a greater roofline to produce a lot more area in the 3rd row. The remainder of the interior, on the other hand, crams in all the tech possible: practically 6 feet of screens atop the dash, approximately 42 speakers’ worth of surround sound, optional Executive second-row seats with rubbing function, hands-free Super Cruise partly automated driving, and the list goes on.

We understand by now that electrification fits well into the super-luxe principles, since quiet and smooth propulsion works much better for much shorter way of life drives. And yet, the large mass needed to accomplish those variety and power figures– regardless of enhanced aero versus the ICE Escalade– regrettably suggests that the laws of physics make no compromises, either.

Particularly, the Escalade IQ trips on the very same battery cradle, very same suspension parts, very same 24-inch wheel size, and very same Michelin Primacy LTX tires as the Silverado EV RST First Edition– a leviathan of a pickup that lots of reporters panned due to the complicated choice by General Motors to spec the biggest wheels ever offered on a production lorry. Even somewhat smaller sized 22-inch wheels, as I can confirm after driving a Silverado EV LT, assistance to lower the crashy and cumbersome reverberations that messed up any form of traveler calmness.