Similar here. The Rivian should be fine for us. Yeah, we'll have to stop to recharge slightly more often than we would have stopped with our diesel truck, and for slightly longer; but not so much so as to be a nuisance.
Update: At 16 months of ownership, our Rivian now has over 18,000 miles - about half of those towing.
In 16 months, I have never had a situation where I
needed a longer bed. A few times it would have been more
convenient to have the old 8' bed than the current 4.5' bed; but I've hauled 12' lumber, a 10' conference room table (plus 8 chairs,) 2 yards of mulch/barkdust on multiple occasions, and the Rivian's shorter bed has never been a dealbreaker. The only time the 8' bed would have been appreciated was when helping a friend move. It took 5 trips in the Rivian when it likely would have only taken 4 in the old Ford. (The Rivian's Gear Tunnel, Front Trunk, and larger back seat allowed for far more "interior" storage per trip than just the shorter bed dropped; in the Ford, only the half-back-seat would have been "interior from the elements" storage.)
For towing, I have towed a small (12' on a single-axle trailer) boat, a small open-top cargo trailer (the converted bed of an old International Harvester pickup,) and two travel trailers:
Our older 28' Forest River Apex:
And our newer 18' NüCamp T@B 400:
We got the T@B this year, after our kids had all moved out, and we realized the Apex was just far bigger than we need any more. Plus we wanted to do longer trips, and the better efficiency of the smaller teardrop would help.
In a year of having Rivian+28' Apex, the longest trip we took was about 200 miles from home, requiring at most one charge stop.
Within two months of buying the 18' NüCamp, we had driven it about 5000 miles, including an ~2000 mile each way trip, where no stop on the outbound or return legs stayed at the same campground two nights in a row. (Did have a two week stop in the middle, visiting family living in the trailer for one week, then taking a 500 mile trailer-less jaunt to stay in a hotel a second week.)
Yes, having to stop to recharge for 30-45 minutes every 90-120 minutes is far less convenient than refueling a gas/diesel vehicle; but this was a vacation, taking a break to stop, stretch, use the bathroom, eat, see the sights, etc, was nice.
There are many EV owners who absolutely bitch and complain about the Electrify America charging network. This gives the impression that finding working chargers is nigh-impossible. It does well to remember that people tend to complain about negative things at a *MUCH* higher rate than they crow about great things; and almost nobody ever even bothers to comment on when things work as expected. We only had one single instance where a charger didn't work as intended. It caused a slight inconvenience, not a trip-interrupting calamity. (Yes, it was Electrify America.)
When the Tesla Supercharger network opens up to non-Tesla EVs later this year via manufacturer-supplied adapters, things will be a lot… different.er. I used to own a Tesla. I never once had a Tesla Supercharger location cause me a problem. Yes, individual stalls/cables may be broken, but Supercharger sites tend to have a lot more stalls, so one or two being out of service isn't a massive problem. Unlike an EA I visited last week where 2 of 6 were broken - on a station that had only been online for less than a week. EA will absolutely have to step up their maintenance to remain even remotely competitive. And in non-Tesla space, EVgo has done a lot of expansion in high-power chargers in the last year. Where they used to trail quite a ways behind EA, now they're nearly even. (Unfortunately, EVgo still has many "legacy" 50kW stations out there, so you have to make sure to research which station type you're planning on stopping at. I made that mistake once during my long road trip - I confused two stations a few miles apart from each other. Had to spend 15 minutes at a slower station to add enough charge to make it to the faster station.)
I've also done a moderate amount of off-roading, including one session of proper rock crawling, and got my first battle scar, scraped the front side fender against a tree. Apparently the "green pickup" *REALLY* wanted to be a tree-hugger. It caused the black plastic trim above the wheel well to shear one of its connecting points off. Convinced the Rivian repair shop to just screw a new attachment screw in rather than replace the entire side panel. I think the repair guy was happy I was willing to accept a "janky" repair, treating it as "just a truck", rather than some expensive never-to-see-use-it's-intended-for item.
I have actually never driven another vehicle except once that was a jeep and that was to move a friends car lol
