By Gary S. Vasilash

The most obvious thing about the forthcoming 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ is that it is big—224.3 inches long, 94.1 inches wide (including mirrors), and 76.1 inches high—bad—here’s a vehicle rolling, out of the factory, on 24s—and in-your-face—people were enchanted with the lighting orchestration of the front fascia during the startup sequence of the Cadillac LYRIQ, which is like an iPhone screen to the Escalade IQ’s LED billboard.

This is monumental in scale. But unlike monuments that just sit there, this 750-hp, three-row vehicle can travel up to an estimated 450 miles on a single charge, which means you could possibly drive it from New York to Boston and back. This is largely predicated on the 200 kWh lithium-ion Ultium battery system.

But there’s one thing that needs to be taken into account.

For those who are using a Level 2 charger—the 240-Volt system that people are having installed in their garages—know that when the Escalade IQ is plugged in, it is getting 14.8 miles of range per hour. Which would get you from Boston to Walden Pond.

On one of those Level 2 chargers that you’ll find in the parking lot of many malls, it is 37 miles of range per hour, which means you could almost go from Boston to Gillette Stadium and back.

A DC fast charger gets up to 100 miles of range in 10 minutes, so in fairly short order you could get up to Manchester, New Hampshire, and make the return having spent 10 minutes of charging.

But here’s one thing to keep in mind.

Say you got a 682-hp, gasoline-powered Escalade-V. It has a 24-gallon tank. It gets 13 mpg combined.

So in less than 10 minutes, you could fill up the tank and drive from Boston to Woodstock (perhaps because you’re an aging Boomer who (1) can afford that vehicle and (2) often feel nostalgic for the festival you missed) and back in that similarly sumptuous vehicle.

While it isn’t the 450 miles of the fully charged Escalade IQ, there’s still something to be said for the cost of time, which plays to the Escalade-V’s favor.