Unhappy with owning an EV in Ireland

I am not pro diesel, but we regularly (once a month) drive Dublin Donegal 300km, non stop, mainly as the 2 kids will sleep for the full 3 & 1/2 hour drive on a Friday. Then we repeat the trip back on the Sunday or Monday. Stopping now mid trip is a disaster as kids wake up straight away. Long term when children are older we will stop mid trip.

I know a Niro should make that trip relatively easy, and if we had a home charger at the other end we could return with 100%.

We are a 2 car household, one EV. I am considering going to 2 car EV, but the cost benefit is on the boundary. Spending 34k for a Niro when existing car looks better and no real fuel savings will result does not make great financial sense. We will go 2 BEV eventually, something like used ID4 when it makes sense maybe in 3 years. I want to avoid public charging at all costs.

Garages already work on cars they know little about, and don't have specialized tools for. There are also back street specialists for many brands and diesel specialists etc. Already garages are working on hybrids with large number of high mileage taxis. The reality is EV are far simpler than ICE. Actually swapping a whole battery has been completed by Irish DIYers, and in one case they swapped every battery cell, which required no computer software magic, just physically swapping batteries over. Replacing a bearing is relatively easy, every garage has bearing pullers and hydraulic presses for installing them. In fact I would say reluability of an old EV is higher than that of an equivalent ICE. Sure it's a risk of driving any car out if warranty but no one will be buying a whole new battery from a main dealer, same as no one buys a whole new engine from a main dealer for an out of warranty ICE. You do hear horror stories about old EVs with strange faults, but anyone who drove old ICE know they give lots of problems. Many old EVs are valued a lot more than equivalent ICE for good reason.

I searched for ford focus replacement engine, 4 adds with pictures, ranging from 1 k to 2 k.

I searched for tesla replacement motor, no adds, scrolled down, I see one forum entry of a guy who replaced it him self 7000$ bought from a scrap dealer.

Make what you want of that.

Tesla motor $15k, has 8 year unlimited mileage warranty and a life expectancy of about 1,000,000km

BMW M5 engine $30k, has 2 year warranty and a life expectancy of about 250,000km

The former is faster, far less likely to go wrong ever and costs 90% less to run and maintain. Now you know why people are very quickly switching to pure EVs. And why this bothers workers unions in the car industry so much...

The old 1.6d, eh? Many of them died just after the initial warranty. Friend of mine used to buy the cars with the wrecked engine and rebuild them to sell on for a substantial profit 🤣

If you think a Leaf has the same range or charging speed or options as a Model 3 you're deluded 🙄

I honestly don't know how this has been allowed to carry on. Obvious trolling and no repercussions. Ruining the forum on regulars and derailing threads where potential owners are asking genuine questions.