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Originally Posted by white rocket
That's some solid advice. Thank you. And sort of the conclusion I've come to, hence looking to add to the fleet to see it it makes sense first rather than swapping immediately. If EV is not for me then just sell the EV and wait for the infrastructure to improve or my intended use to change. It's really the in-town stuff that has an ICE looking terrible from a mpg standpoint but we also need the truck bed and sometimes more than 5 seats in those in-town settings. Decisions, decisions.
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We just don't have EV that's a do-it-all option. It's always about compromises. Yes, you have SUV/Crossovers/Sedans and whatever, but they just haven't gotten everything out yet, in your case, something to tow/do roadtrips. Maybe by the time Cybertruck actually hit the market, we'd have something decent as it's spec'd to make 500 miles (the top trim at least). And even cutting that by half when towing is included, 250miles on a charge is more than decent as the distance between one supercharger to another is usually far less than that. With EVs, you are not always charging to full at every charge stop, but just enough to make it to the next one. And you want it that way because low SOC (state of charge) means faster charging.
With that in mind though, if one's looking for a vehicle to drive in the city, there's very little reason to not go EV, even if you don't drive all that much. The low cost of operation is night and day difference when comparing vehicles in the same price range.
My friend had a BMW 320, and drives about 12000km a year. He switched to a Model 3 RWD/SR+ and couldn't be happier. As he drives relatively little. He just relies on the 110v plug he's got on the wall and it works fine for him. The only regret he had was not buying it earlier. No oil leak/burn/gas price/service to worry about and the few road trips that he did (up to Whistler/Kelowna and down to LA), the supercharger network served him fine. He calls it the ultimate city vehicle, which is hard to argue.
Many people hesitate to go EV because of fear of range anxiety, and I'd say that's the case with non-Tesla EVs. But Tesla got it quite figured out unless you are going to the middle of nowhere. Anything that's along major hwys, and inside large metros, Tesla's charging network got it covered. People in even Model 3 SR+, which is the lowest range Tesla out there, have done cross Canada/US trips without a hitch.
When I went full EV, the idea was simple. 99.5% of my trips can be covered with EV. And if it ever comes to that 0.5% of chances, I'd just rent. The difference in operating cost can allow me to rent specific vehicles that I need many times in the year. And for the 2+yrs of full EV, I've only needed to rent a truck once because I needed to haul a lot of stuff up to Revelstoke. And as I said, once the Cybertruck gets here, it'd probably cover the full 100% of my needs ever imaginable with a car.