Cadillac Escalade To Be Brand’s Only ICE Nameplate By 2026, Says Report
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Back in 2019, GM-owned luxury brand Cadillac proclaimed that it would slowly transition to an all-electric vehicle portfolio by 2030. This transition is set to happen a bit more quickly than some may have anticipated, with the Cadillac Escalade set to become the brand’s sole remaining internal-combustion engine vehicle by as early as 2026.
According to a new report from Automotive News, the Cadillac Escalade will be the only internal-combustion engine product in the luxury automaker’s portfolio by 2026 and will be sold alongside the expected battery-electric Escalade model – which could be called Escalade IQ. This means internal-combustion engine Cadillac models like the Cadillac CT4 and CT5 sedans, as well as the XT4, XT5 and XT6 crossovers, will all be discontinued over the next four years. They will be indirectly replaced by battery-electric crossovers and sedans in the near future.
GM Authority has previously uncovered a number of trademark applications for future Cadillac vehicle names, including Optiq, Symboliq, Ascendiq, Lumistiq and Vistiq. All future Cadillac EV models are expected to adopt this naming convention, which replaces the current alphanumeric names with traditional names ending in the ‘-iq’ suffix. The automaker also has a large battery-electric luxury sedan in development called the Cadillac Celestiq, which retail for up to $300,000 and will be hand-built in small quantities at the GM Warren Tech center in Michigan.
Cadillac is far from the only luxury brand to commit to a full EV product portfolio by 2030. Its crosstown rival Lincoln has the same plan, as does Korean luxury brand Genesis, Swedish premium brand Volvo and German luxury giant Mercedes-Benz. Buick will also transition to a full EV portfolio by 2030 following the introduction of its first EV model in 2024.
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Yea whatever I’ll believe when I see it.
You beat me by three hours and twenty five minutes.
Nothing in the article stated the ICE Escalade would be manufactured in perpetuity, only that it would be the only ICE Cadillac in 2026.
Who knows what Cadillac may or may not do in 2027 or later. They still have until 2030 to meet their original goal of being 100% EV’s.
This makes sense for the CT4/5, for sure…inevitable, even. With platform-mate Camaro gone after 2024, it’s entirely plausible that its Alpha cousins are done around the same time. Probably a shortened 2025 MY production run, highlighted by some ‘special edition’ V cars, before they’re done to make way for retooling and production of electrified 2026 models.
The cynic in me says you can wave goodbye to any further MCEs for the affected models (save the Escalade, maybe), with those resources directed to the replacements.
It’s a little surprising that GM is going all in with electric. It seems consumers are not given a choice. I don’t know a lot of people that want electric.
I know that’s right, people can’t afford electric vehicles
How about Slikdiq for the sports car, Limo could be Longdiq and maybe Pickdiq for the Cruise Origin model. Or be like Buick naming every model Electra (why the same two names on every car?)
Cadillac has an incredible history of great storied names. In no part of its great past were the names all tied together in some cutsie manner.
Who is making these decisions at gm??? Great product will sell, but these stupidiq names will not help.
So you think they’d do better selling luxury EVs if they named them Eldorado, Deville, Seville, etc? Or are you thinking the homerun would be more of a Celestiq Brougham or Lyriq Biarritz d’Elegance?
The old names that you mentioned have a history… We all know what they stand for… They meant something and still do…
They’re at least real words. The others could just as easily be prescription drugs.
So let me get this straight. There is an existential crisis and the planet is about to be set on fire unless we act urgently and convert to electric cars as soon as possible. And GM is committed to doing their part to help by going all-EV because, well, it’s an emergency and they care. Except they’re going to keep building the most extreme violator; the gargantuan 6.2 L V8 Escalade. Is that right? Why not keep the Sonic instead? It doesn’t pollute much and not everyone can afford a $65,000 EV. Why in the world, given the crisis they say we face, would they keep such a horrible contributor?
It also doesn’t make sense from a business perspective. If the Hummer SUV EV makes sense, then a Cadillac Escalade EV should sell as well. It’s essentially the same thing.
Do you want some cheese with that whine?
I hope you don’t have kids, the biggest environmental violation of all.
In the mean time i’ll enjoy my ICE SUV’s as much as i want and can.
So you have really bought into all that Globalist crap??? What do “they” measure pollution by? Co2 levels… An interesting thing about Co2 is that plants, trees bushes, etc consume it as plant food. This is one reason why forests are so important to the well-being of the planet… We, that’s people and animals create Co2 just from breathing and everyday activities. Trees and plants consume the Co2 and “exhale” oxygen, the very stuff that we breathe. Why in God’s green earth would we try to rid the planet of Co2 when plants, trees, and the very food we grow depends on it to survive and grow? To keep the balance in our environment, forests must be maintained to naturally contain the Co2 levels in the world. Should we talk about how ethical China is in mining the very materials for the batteries that THEY build that go into your electric cars? or how about just where the energy comes from that allows you to plug in your EV? I can not believe I have to explain this s h i t to adults…
Let me see if I understand this correctly-by 2026 except for 1 vehicle every Cadillac will be an EV?
So in four years there will be enough charging staions for all these EVs hitting the road? I doubt it . Even going full blast for EV charging stations I figure it will take by 2030 at least.
You’re assuming Cadillac will sell hundreds of thousands of their EVs. The grid might not be as challenged by Cadillac EVs as you think…
I am more curious about where all that electricity for all those EV charging stations is going to come from. (Coal, Nukes, Nat Gas, etc?) There are already hours-long waits to charge EV’s in California…
I’ve never done a brand transition before, so I can’t speak as to how gm should handle this situation, but I remember what Cadillac once was. I miss it.
My wife likes her 2017 Escalade and I like my 2022 Yukon because of the size and everything they have to offer. I’m like Alex, I will enjoy them while I can. I would have traded for another Escalade if the dealers were not so greedy by adding thousands to the retail pricing.
Usually when people talk about the big SUV compared to a sedan sized vehicle, they forget that most sedans have only one or some time two people in them. The SUV has the entire family in it many times. So how much fuel per person is a better comparison. We are grandparents and at least 50% of the time in our Yukon all the seats are full. So, who gets better gas mileage per person?
interesting thought… It’s just me driving alone most of the time But I still like the Internal Combustion Engine… I don’t have to carry a really long extension cord.
Most suv’s, or vehicles in general I see on the streets have one person.
so?
Reality of this is our country can not support the electrical grid to charge all these EV’S. The increase in electric energy as it is today is “not clean energy” do the auto makers think in 4 years or even 8 years from now there will be an adequate electrical grid. Look at California every summer they have rolling “brown outs” add massive units of Ev’s nobody will make it to work. Gm is pushing this on the consumer without ever considering if the consumer wants it. Hybrids make sense they don’t need recharging get awesome mileage explore more of that. To be clear I drive a 21 cadillac ct4V and I love it
This is Marry Barra’s plan for GM, not Brandon’s. Mary committed Cadillac, as well as the rest of GM, to being an EV centric company before Brandon came into office.
Dee:
So GM has developed all these vehicles in roughly 18 months?
Yesterday I took my Escalade Hybrid for a trip to the mountains all by myself. No wife no kids. Opened the all the windows and the sunroof. What a glorious wonderful day. My 6.0 litre engine was powerful and strong climbing those big hills. I guess I face the inevitable end of such extravagant lifestyle. Oh I will miss the fun. I think today I will take out my 1973 Coupe DeVille with 472 cubic inch of nothing but pure power and non filtered exhaust, like smoking a Cammel cigarette. Life is good.
Witness protection:
I’ve read a lot of ” Rose-Colored- Glasses” posts, especially in this thread.
The 472 V8 of 1973 produced all of 220 HP. The 2.0 4cyl of today produces 237.
oh, come on… you just ruined the poor guy’s wet dream… BTW, turbos are great but on little motors, they make the hamsters work too hard for long periods of time…
Megeebee, you completely missed WP’s point. Clearly you have never driven an older ICE vehicle with a big cube engine. It’s all about the sound.
In the 73 there is only a two mufflers. It’s just incredibly nice to hear the sounds bouncing of the wall of the mountains as your accelerating. It’s almost better than……….. The sounds of a 4 banger in the same place isn’t the same.
Witness protection:
On this we agree.
Hyroir:
Wrong on all points.
First: I was reacting to the statement: “472 cubic inch of nothing but pure power….” I contend that 220 HP is far from ” pure power”. In fact driving a 1973 Cadillac was often a frustrating experience. That engine was so restricted by anti-smog devices it was challenged towing the cars weight around. They always felt “short-of-breath”. Cadillac customers were always complaining about it.
I know this first hand because I WORKED FOR A CADILLAC DEALER IN 1973.
Second: I have had at one time or another in my long driving life, the following Cadillacs:
1963 Sedan de Ville. 3, different 1970’s (1 Sedan de Ville, 1 rare Fleetwood Sixty Special Sedan, 1 Fleetwood Brougham). 1971 Sedan de Ville. 1972 Eldorado Convertible. 1973 Coupe de Ville. 1974 Eldorado Coupe. 1976 Seville. 1976 Fleetwood Brougham. 1981 Eldorado.
Then I guess you know the sound, Megeebee. By the way, no need to yell at me, I’m not deaf. And it certainly was not my intent to make you mad. Just expanding on what WP had already said.
My DeVille has had all the emissions removed along with the ac compressor. It’s a hugger over weight behemoth. But I enjoy it. Long and sleek No aplomb going down the highway at speed there is nothing like it.
you had me right up to the “Cammel”. (Obviously, your Camel has two humps)
Camel not cammel. Sorry
The best thing about my woefully under powered 472 is going to Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods and parking next to the Tesla charging portals and let it idle😎. The evil looks from the Tesla owners as they smell the un filtered exhaust is nothing but complete exuberants. Throw in me sitting in the trunk smoking a Marlboro just adds to it. Can you tell please post a picture of your 4 banger. Must be fun to drive
Okay, let me get this straight—a vehicle that literally screams “take me on a road trip” is going to be relegated to jaunts of maybe 250-300 miles followed by sitting in line for an hour or more to get an hour’s worth of juice to go another 250 miles? Makes the term “road trip” seem way less exciting. For me, I guess I’ll just keep my crew cab 1500 diesel until it dies. I filled it up yesterday and at my highway average of 31.2 mpg, the computer says I can go almost 700 miles before I have to refill. Even if I only do short trips it’ll be a month before I need fuel. I guess I don’t understand why more people aren’t screaming their heads off at the idiots in Washington and the idiots in the blue states who are backing this whole EV plan. And don’t even get me started on how we’re going to find the energy to charge all these electric hogs.
After reading the comments I am so glad I have lived owning gas powered vehicles, the 60’s and 70’s music and still enjoy getting in my gas powered vehicle and going for a drive when I want, to where I want to go, and not have to worry about stopping to charge my vehicle. But life is going to take a major change, and the majority of us can’t do a thing about it. Out of interest I just researched Google. 1. At the UN Climate Change Conference, 6 Automakers and 30 Countries signed a pledge to end the sales of gas and diesel powered cars by 2040, and phase out sales by 2035. 2. Now not getting into who is or who isn’t a President or Prime Minister as they decide to save the planet and go EV, I thought I would check something else. The US Secret Service uses a USAF C-17 to transport the Presidents Beast. A C-17 requires 186,054 lbs of fuel to fill, (or 28,000 gallons), and the C-17 uses 20,000 lbs of fuel per hour. I don’t disagree that any head of state requires the best security in the world today, but I also think the average person should be able to purchase and drive a gas powered vehicle. and not worry about recharging every few hundred miles, or the cost to replace the battery, It will only be the few that will be able to enjoy travel as we have known it to be. The Elite, the Automotive Executives, and the over paid sports celebrities that are paid millions of dollars a year. (just my opinion which hasn’t been taken away yet)
Yup yup. I’m in the limo pool at logan. I’m the only Hybrid here. My car is off the rest are all idling cause it’s hot. I agree what you said .
The Escalade is my workhorse limo service vehicle. This is my 2nd Hybrid Verizon of this platform. My 08 Tahoe is like a slot car with the incredible weight and weight savings. The gm engineers did a incredible job on shaving weight and improving the ride and balance distribution of the Hybrids. Trust me take out a regular 5.3 tahoe and compare it to the Hybrid you will be shocked. The Escalade now rides on 18 inch drilled aluminum wheels. And the airbags are gone. I installed Tahoe specific front and rear struts and shocks. Tahoe upper and lower control arms. This truck has incredible power and will carve corners. Of course it’s really deligated to the mundane job of going back and forth to Logan airport. But it’s a well balanced Quick Good looking SUV.
The stance of the Hybrid Tahoe is pretty cool. Gm engineering did a great job. What did Ferris Bueler say, I highly suggest if you have the opportunity to drive one do it. Gm made 12,000 from 2008 to 2012 all thru the line. Hard to come by and when you have it you don’t let them go
It’s force feeding the public to go electric by Uncle Sam. The master planners have deemed this necessary.
A transition to all electric will be a huge mistake. There is not one EV that has a 500 mile range (let alone in cold weather). Charging takes hours (days on 110V) and charging points are unreliable. BTW a supercharged V8 in a GMC Hummer would be nice!