2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ - 19 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

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Odds & Ends
Charger on back driver side
Usually ultium is on front driver fender
Auto powered door option like i7
Inside dash easter eggs
AKG speakers (40 of them)
Doors, ceiling, headrest
Glove box button
Taillights look like piano keys
No start stop button, just sit and go
All the other cadillac EVs end in IQ
They all get new names but the Escalade transcends
Regen paddle
V button (v max for full power)
Arrival mode = crab walk
Night vision
Trailer view camera has boat on it
Towing 8000 lbs - trailer brake controller
Conversation enhance in 2nd row
Mug friendly cupholder toggle
Passenger side mirror feels magnified
Cadaver tray under hood
What’s new for 2025?
This is a big one cuz it personifies Cadillac
Shares nothing with the gas escalade
Dedicated EV platform
Same size as the escalade
2.7 in shorter than ESV
4.2 in wider tho
Even longer IQL coming soon
Competitors
Rivian R1S
Kia EV9
Model X
Lucid Gravity***
EQG?
Motors/Power
Dual motor std
NOT the same motors as the Hummer EV SUV
750 hp (in V max)
780 lbft (1000 nm)
0-60 in
2.1 mi/kWh in LL
1.7 in highway test
Battery/Range
Over 460 mi range (according to caddy - no EPA cuz weight)
430 in LL
350 on highway test
205kWh battery (usable)
Same 24 module pack as the Hummer EV truck
Charging
350kW charge
100 mi in 10 min…..mhmm
19kW for home charging
Mine tops out at like 14
Can charge at tesla with an adapter
Weight/dynamics
Air suspension std WITH mag ride dampers
Slightly longer wheelbase than ESV
Rear steer (crab walk)
Styling
Midnight steel frost paint (5925)
Light up face similar to lyric
Does dances
Looonnngggg hood
24 in wheels
Front fender badge detail
Slightly more sleek profile - sloping roof
Two tone roof - black (1100)
Rear looks kinda funky but clean and stylish
Vertical taillights & lots of badging
Trunk
Frunk
Just over 12 cuft (skinny)
Outlet 400w - vehicle to load & home
Organizer (1000)
Smaller than normal length gas
23.6 behind 3rd row
69 cuft
119 cuft
Underfloor storage
Glass doesnt open separately
Towing
8000 lbs
Third row
2nd row flips and folds old school
Not on this one
Slightly less headroom than gas
vents
Rear seats
Executive style captains chairs option (7500)
Airplane tray come out of center console
Ent screens (2000)
command screen
Heated cooled and massage
Flat floor and layered storage
Screen
Heated
5 zone climate
Front seats
Heated and cooled and massage
Memory
Bolster adjuster
Interior
All about the screens
The whole dash is screens
Ambient light goes crazy
Shines through the laser cut wood
Pretty intoxicating
Camelia and backen black
Real wood laser cut for ambient light
Lots of storage layers
Can get cool box under floating bridge
Two spoke steering wheel
Tech
55 in worth of screen on dash
Very aware the cluster is angled away from you
Prismatic passenger screen
So driver can only see when parked
Hulu, YT, HDMI, etc
Lower screen as helper kinda like audi
Climate and comfort stuff
NO ACP & AA
Cuz range planning but still…
Google built in
HUD
Digi rear view
Safety suite
Super cruise - std
3 years included
Ultra cruise optional
Auto lane change - even back to the right
Price
~130k
Luxury 2 as tested 167,505