I wonder if EVs are seen around town more because they are driven more.

I believe that there is a strong effect where in a two car household with one EV and one non-EV, a large preference to driving the EV will occur. First it will tend to be the newer/nicer car so if you’re going out together somewhere why wouldn’t you take the EV. Second it would just make good financial sense to have the person with the longer commute use the EV.

But then there are probably a subset of drivers who do a lot of driving who might prefer an ICE because of the whole range/infrastructure issue. Also, more affordable housing often means longer commutes, and perhaps many ICE cars are doing long commutes because EVs, and new cars in general, are outside the price bracket of many people having to commute for a couple of hours every day.

There is a nice video by Bjorn Nyland where he interviews a company (Elywhere) making a semi portable fast charger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTCyjm6TSOU

It convinced me that there can be a good business case for this. Instead of a diesel generator it uses batteries to install fast chargers in locations where the grid connection is weak. The batteries can be charged slowly at off peak prices then dump that power into cars whenever someone comes along.