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Daily drive a smaller vehicle, rent a longer range vehicle.
For most people that's the sensible answer. But a lot will try to justify it with ridiculous reasons.
If you're only doing 1-3 trips per year, you should be separating the needs. You don't need the same vehicle for both, and rentals are not hard to get for the oddball situations. Just like you'd rent a Uhaul to move. If you only need a truck 5 days a year, don't buy a truck and drive that big thing around the other 360 days wasting money.
Rental companies have every type of vehicle imaginable. Heck, Lowes rents trucks the same way they rent tools. No need to buy a table saw if you just need it for one project. Same thing with a truck to get stuff home from the store once .
If you need that capability more often then that's totally fine, you get what fits your needs. That may not be a current EV. But the reality is that's just not 99% of people, don't expect your 1% use case exception to determine the entire industry.