Now imagine that distance being the distance to the next major city. And your family is 2 hours east of there. Welcome to Texas.
Superchargers are so dense on the major roads in Texas you don't even need to plan ahead: You just get in the car and drive, like in an ICE car. On smaller roads you have to plan a bit but Level 2 chargers are common. If I stay with friends, I charge in their driveway and leave the next day with a full "tank." Charging in Texas is a non-issue unless you're visiting very remote places like Big Bend NP.
Discussing the state of charging infrastructure is one thing. But if you have a Tesla then there are superchargers everywhere. The whole argument is FUD, usually propagated by people who don't own EV's or have some agenda.
You can downvote me all you want, it doesn't win or lose the argument.
In the real world, I've never met an EV owner who didn't prefer it to a gas-guzzler, so I'm somewhat skeptical of the number of people on social media who claim to have returned theirs.
But once you start going to many of the smaller cities you have to start taking longer routes to get to chargers and make weird detours and backtrack from chargers to get to your route.
Same with many tourist destinations outside the major cities.
Friends that tried to go pure EV and didn’t live their lives entirely in one city have inevitably had to buy a second gas car or truck. Because those “occasional” issues show up a lot in Texas.
My personal main concern is the emergency situations where the grid is down or there are mass evacuations. After hurricanes entire highly populated of the state can be without power for weeks. The area I live in now to be near my ailing parents regularly has power issues. I can bring in gas from outside the area to last a while but I can’t bring in a high voltage source.