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You seem to be trying to lump all problems into a single one-size-fits-all solution. So let's address things one at a time instead.
If you drive more than my car's range can handle in a day, don't buy the same car as me. There are EVs with much higher ranges, or quicker charge times, and many other variables. There's very likely one that has the range a given person needs (cost we'll leave as a distinct other issue, but only because by the time ICE vehicles aren't for sale any more the much higher ranges on EVs will also be much more affordable).
If you live an hour away from civilization, then unless you also have no electricity (in which case, EVs are not for you... but as others have said, just keep the ICE vehicle you have, there'll be a used market for decades), those folks are going to have an outlet or be able to install an outlet to do charging on. The "hour away from everyone else on the planet" people are not the same people as the "no garage, not even a parking space" people.
If you live in a city (no garage or parking space, that likely means a urban environment), you're going to have chargers you can swing by once a week to fast charge (city people rarely have the long commutes that rural folk have), heck in my own urban environment we have some cheap ($2/hr) city owned parking lots nearby that have fast chargers for free as part of parking there.
By 2030, you'll have a robust market of used EVs, and likely a few on that market that are both much more affordable, and can check off the boxes needed for a given individual. Will every EV work for every person? No of course not, but that's not true of ICE vehicles either.