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I hadn't so much considered mountainous areas, since highway driving here is mostly flat (even what we consider "mountains" are pretty flat). Yes, we are going to need charging infrastructure on long drives, but that's going to be the case even if batteries could do 500km or 1000km on a charge. My petrol hatchback can only do 500km highway, and there's still servos every few 100km at a minimum, even through the most of the outback. We will need fast charging as commonly as we have highway servos.
But if you live in a place where the common long drives you do are ~1.5x your range, and have a charger halfway, an electric car is easily practical. Longer drives are practical, a mate did a 1600km round trip in their EV with no issues, and would gladly do it again.
As for hybrids, yeah, a plug-in hybrid is the worst of both, but a 'normal' hybrid is essentially just a very efficient petrol car.