GM’s $130,000 Escalade Is Big, Brash, Expensive — and Green

  • EscaladeIQ goes on sale next year, gets 450 miles per charge
  • Electric SUV is crucial to turning around GM’s Cadillac unit
General Motors is betting car buyers want an electrified Escalade.Source: GM

The Cadillac Escalade has long been one of the largest, most luxurious and biggest gas guzzling SUVs — in many ways, the antithesis of the environmental movement.

But no longer. General Motors Co. on Wednesday unveiled plans to build an all-electric version with an eye-popping price tag of $130,000, making it one of the most expensive EVs on the market.