This is a country where long distance drives are the norm.

I'm pretty sure that I've seen statistics like "99+% of drives are under 40 miles", so what do you mean by "norm" here? The norm is a road trip (100+ miles) once or twice a year.

We are a pretty normal family. 50-51 weeks a year, we drive mostly locally - commuting to work (was 4 miles for me, 11 miles for wife, 22 miles for eldest kid, etc), commuting to school (4 miles, later 6 miles, one summer session was 34 miles), shopping (0.5 - 8 miles), various appointments (doctors mostly, 0.5 to 22 miles, once over the years was 40 miles). Once in a while, maybe twice a year we had a longer trip, like to see a show in a nearby city (60 miles), or to attend one of the kids graduations (90 miles). Then 1-2 weeks a year, we do a road trip, usually between 250 (theme parks, etc) and 800 miles away (in-laws are 640 miles, other family almost 800 miles), and in the years of using our EV (and now we are 100% EV, all 3 cars are EV) we haven't experience problems with charging on the road trips. We would stop at a rest stop (or at a WaWa or similar) and plug the car in, then everyone would go wait for the bathroom, stretch our legs, get a snack and/or a drink, or just sit at a picnic table and have lunch/dinner that we packed. And then we would go back in the car and continue our trip. Once at a rest stop in Florida, the car notified me that it was finished charging WHILE we were in line at Dunkin to pick up our coffees and hot chocolates. To avoid idle charges, I bumped up the charge limit from 80% to 90% so it would start charging again. By the time we got back to the car, it was at about 85%. Then we continued along our way.

The whole range anxiety thing is largely obviated at this point.