Before heading on a trip to Tahoe last weekend, GM offered me the use of the company’s 9,000-pound monument to excess — the new 2026 electric Escalade IQL (starting at $130,405) — for a week to test-drive. Before you continue, note that I’m not a professional car reviewer. TechCrunch has excellent transportation writers; I am not one of them. I do, however, drive an electric car . I was immediately game. I’d first glimpsed one last summer at a car show, where some regional car dealers had stationed themselves at the end of a long field dotted with exquisite vintage automobiles. My immediate reaction was “Jesus, that’s enormous,” followed by a surprising admiration for its design, which, despite its enormous scale, shows restraint. For lack of a better word, I’m going to say it’s “strapping.” Its proportions just work. My excitement waned pretty quickly when the car was dropped off at my house a day before our departure time.…