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this is the Cadillac ELR to unfairly put it in shorthand you would say it's the Cadillac volt because it has the same basic idea it runs about 37 miles on battery only then it's gonna kick over to its gas engine which just runs a generator and that gets you about another 300 miles until you put more gas in the tank but you can keep going electric and long as you have gas some numbers a little less than two and 50 horsepower 295 foot-pounds of torque will get it on the road here in a minute charge time is 5 hours from a dead flat battery more like three three and a half from your typical 20% left where a lot of folks are gonna put it remember it's a range extender so you're never stuck this is what you used to call a personal luxury coupe in Detroit parlance but no one uses that word anymore but it's kind of the right phrase inside you're gonna find the Cadillac cue system we've seen and liked it before what's added here are some new instrument panel modes and center console modes that embrace the electrification of this vehicle so giving you some range projections regeneration profiles and showing you in kind of a gamified way how greenly you're driving and of course connectivity on this vehicle from a web browser or the app on your phone allows you to do all the usual sort of telematics on-the-go things but also to charge it three ways charge now charge later or charge when rates are lowest that's kind of the state of the art for electric cars that are connected of course with the kind of torque we're talking about here pushing 300 foot-pounds gets off the line beautifully all the torque from one rpm things that electric cars do natively you might ask what we've got paddles on the wheel for a car that doesn't have a transmission it's only got one gear set it's a reduction gear not a not a gearbox well these are actually regenerative braking on-demand paddles so when you pull one of these guys back doesn't matter which one you're putting this guy into hard regen mode it's analogous to a lot of compression braking you'd have on a gasoline engine and that's a great drivers tool if you know how to use it it's a great way to dive in and out of corners instead of braking which is a different kind of a dynamic and tends to throw a car off one more thing I want to show you this brief quick look here look in the middle there I've got Tour mode sport mode those are fairly common it's kind of one is more relaxed and one tightens up throttle response adaptive suspension firmness and activeness and also steering response but the next one I've got here is gonna be a mountain mode where the car is gonna pre generate more electricity when you're getting into a lot of hill climbing heading up to ski or what have you and the last one here is a hold position if you want it to run in range extender only use gas to make electricity and save the battery for pure Eevee running when you get to your destination in town that's what that does so there's a lot of nuance here between the controls and the modes and what you can do with your charging behaviors via an app there's clearly a learning curve here and it's part of new modern cars I sometimes feel bad for the car dealer who's got a delivery training they've got to do a little tech conversation not just a car conversation