Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2022

Some automakers keep trying to soothe it with ever-larger and heavier battery packs, so that consumers can go farther between charges. These handsome crossover SUVs might not be able to cruise for 7 hours on the highway, like the 500-mile-range Lucid Air. But overachieving charging may be this platform’s technical coup.

Volt 104

Volt Range Charging Hummer 104

Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Traffic cones fly by in the side windows like mailboxes on a country road until I let off the pedal and let “B” mode’s regenerative braking lasso this electric SUV down for a gradual right turn back into its parking spot. How fast does it charge, and what is its battery range?

Audi 52

Audi SUV Volt MPH 52

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It’s a truck, specifically the Escalade SUV, the gussied-up, very successful ultra-luxury version of the Chevy Suburban. Open charge port door on the exterior of the 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ. Perhaps the most startling were two Cadillacs in addition to the Lyriq—since a midsize luxury electric SUV wasn’t a surprise even then.

All-Electric 52

All-Electric Cadillac North America GM 52