Cadillac EV Sales Actually Up Year Over Year In 4th Quarter!

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Cadillac did it. Despite the $7,500 US EV tax credit ending at the end of the 3rd quarter, leading to a rush of EV purchases before October and then a big dropoff in sales after that, Cadillac actually sold more electric vehicles in the 4th quarter of 2025 than in the 4th quarter of 2024. We’ll have to check all of the auto brands’ sales data in coming days, but it may end up that Cadillac is the only brand to see EV sales growth year over year in the 4th quarter.

OK, jumping into the numbers, this is how it happened:

  • The Escalade IQ EV rose from 670 sales in Q4 2024 to 2,085 sales in Q4 2025.
  • The LYRIQ dropped from 8,084 sales in Q4 2024 to 4,345 sales in Q4 2025.
  • The OPTIQ rose from 0 sales in Q4 2024 to 2,361 sales in Q4 2025.
  • The VISTIQ rose from 0 sales in Q4 2024 to 2,210 sales in Q4 2025.

So, yeah, part of this is Cadillac has new models this year. The LYRIQ’s sales dropped nearly in half. Nonetheless, overall, the key point is sales were up.

Now, looking quarter over quarter is more sobering. EVs had risen to 40% of Cadillac sales in the 3rd quarter, the most of any legacy auto brand (unless you count Fiat). In the 4th quarter, the EV share had dropped to 27%. Still, 27% is a respectable figure. And that’s actually where Cadillac was in the 2nd quarter.

Cadillac is gaining a lot of praise for its EV efforts, and clearly still gaining a lot of customers. It appears that this is one brand that might be surviving the EV subsidy cut relatively unscathed.

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