There are a lot of people who are in your exact shoes. Pickup trucks and full-size SUVs are hugely popular and the vast majority (I've seen estimates over 90% in some reports) of people never tow anything or haul more than once a month. People love them because they're comfortable and have great road visibility. There's a reason crossovers replaced cars for the most part, that the station wagon got replaced by the minivan and then the SUV.
A lot of loud, obnoxious people are pointing out these articles that show that today's EV trucks can't tow or haul the way a gas truck can. Well, duh. That's not what most people use their trucks for.
Make no mistake. EVs today are not ready to replace ICE cars. But they will be.
It might take 10 years. It might take 20. But the product is better. Free market will speak. They'll have better efficiency, better power, better acceleration, and more storage space. They'll be equivalently priced if not cheaper. They'll be more reliable and require less maintenance. They have less moving parts.
Anybody who is saying "today they're not ready, so they'll never be ready" is fooling themselves. The large #s of people daily driving Teslas have proven that it's a viable use case. Now we just need to fix the rest of the problems (range, charge times, cost, availability, etc).
And for anybody wondering about using coal to charge your EV. Even if every single car on the planet were an EV and every single kilowatt of power provided to an EV were from a "dirty" source like coal, it'd be cleaner than the current automotive landscape.
Our grandkids will likely never drive gas cars. Hell, some of them may never even ride in one or see one operate. And that's fine. Most of my generation never rode in a horse and buggy unless it were recreational.
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