Cadillac Pickup Truck Rendered With 2025 Escalade IQ Styling Traits

General Motors should've known better, though, especially after the Ford Motor Company failed to make a splash with the F-150-based Lincoln Blackwood. The same can be said about the Mark LT, which was discontinued from the US market in 2008 and from the Mexican market back in 2014.

Manufactured at the Silao assembly plant in Mexico, the Escalade EXT transitioned to the GMT900 platform in 2006 for model year 2007. Production came to a halt in 2013, the year Cadillac reported a meager 1,972 sales in the US market.

Half truck and half sport utility vehicle, the Escalade EXT does neither well. On top of that, high-end versions of the GMC Sierra 1500, Ford F-150, and Ram 1500 are better value and more capable in terms of towing and hauling. Be that as it may, the good folks at AutoYa decided to revive the Cadillac Escalade EXT as an electric pickup truck.

The rendering is wishful thinking at best. General Motors already has an overly expensive zero-emission truck in the form of the GMC Hummer EV, an off-road truck that – hardly surprising – doesn't sell in large numbers. Including the sport utility vehicle-bodied sibling, the GMC Hummer EV clocked 3,244 sales in 2023 stateside. By comparison, the F-150 Lightning sold 24,165.

One could argue that a Cadillac Escalade IQ-based Escalade EXT wouldn't cannibalize GMC Hummer EV sales. But on the other hand, remember that General Motors also makes the GMC Sierra EV Denali. The Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 – which sold out in 2022 – is ludicrously expensive at $108,695. Can you imagine what kind of money the automaker's Cadillac division would be required to charge for a fully electric revival of the Escalade EXT?

Some peeps would pony up the money, there's no mistaking that, yet everyone and their dog knows that an electric pickup truck from the Cadillac brand is ultimately going to lose money for General Motors. The American automaker's electric truck platform is dubbed BT1, and sooner rather than later, General Motors will expand the BT1 family with electric versions of the Tahoe, Suburban, Yukon, and Yukon XL.

BT1 production is handled by the Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly Plant, which General Motors rechristened Factory Zero in anticipation of electric vehicle production. The site was originally a Dodge factory that the Chrysler Corporation shuttered in 1980. GM purchased it the following year, and production restarted in 1985 with the front-wheel-drive 1986 Cadillac Seville.

GM's other electric vehicle platform is the BEV3, a skateboard-type platform that underpins the Cadillac Lyriq. The XT5-sized Lyriq carries a sticker price of $58,590 (sans destination charge) in the United States for model year 2024, whereas the Escalade IQ is estimated to kick off at $130,000.