Lucid Gravity vs Cadillac Escalade IQ: Two Six-Figure EVs, Two Opposite Philosophies
A category-by-category head-to-head of the Lucid Gravity and Cadillac Escalade IQ: range, performance, space, driving feel, charging, driver assistance, and value.
Head to head EV matchups.
A category-by-category head-to-head of the Lucid Gravity and Cadillac Escalade IQ: range, performance, space, driving feel, charging, driver assistance, and value.
Every so often, two cars arrive that exist in a rarefied world almost none of us will ever shop in, and yet they’re absolutely fascinating to compare, because they represent two nations’ answers to the same audacious question. What should the ultimate electric luxury car be? Rolls-Royce answered with the Spectre, a hand built British…
The Rivian R2 Performance and the Tesla Model Y Performance carry the exact same $57,990 sticker, and once each company adds its destination and order fees, the out the door totals stay within a rounding error of each other. So the money can’t settle this one. The cars have to speak for themselves. And these…
The midsize electric SUV is where most of America actually shops, which is why it’s the most crowded and competitive corner of the whole EV world. Three of the most interesting choices come at the same buyer from completely different angles. The Tesla Model Y is the best selling EV in the country, the efficient,…
When the Ford Mustang Mach-E arrived in 2021, it did something genuinely bold. It borrowed the most famous name in Ford’s history, stuck it on an electric SUV, and went straight after the Tesla Model Y, the best selling EV in America. Plenty of Model Y challengers have come and gone since then, but the…
Not so long ago, if you wanted a compact luxury electric SUV, the choices were German and expensive. Then two challengers arrived from Asia with genuinely different ideas about what luxury should feel like. Genesis, Hyundai’s upstart luxury brand, brought the GV60, a car bursting with personality, cutting edge charging technology, and a rotating crystal…
Here’s a fun bit of trivia that shapes this entire matchup. The Kia EV6 and the Hyundai Ioniq 5 are, underneath their wildly different skins, the same car. They share the same excellent 800 volt E-GMP platform, the same battery packs, the same motors, and the same corporate parent. And yet they’ve grown into two…
Here’s a genuinely tricky shopping situation. You want a three row electric SUV, you’ve done your homework, and you’ve landed on two of the best in the business: the Kia EV9 and the Hyundai Ioniq 9. Then you dig a little deeper and discover the catch. They come from the same parent company, ride on…
The luxury electric sedan is one of the most fascinating corners of the whole car world, because it’s where each brand shows off everything it knows. And in 2026, the field genuinely narrowed to three headliners. Tesla discontinued the Model S, which had defined the segment for over a decade, and its departure left the…
For years, if you wanted a genuinely premium three row electric SUV, you looked to the established German and legacy brands. Then two young American companies decided they could do it better, and they showed up with wildly ambitious three row electric SUVs that make the establishment look a little sleepy. Rivian, the adventure obsessed…