—” long way between charging stations here in Texas.”
More charging stations than you may realize.
https://www.plugshare.com/directory/us/texas
Many of our local WaWa’s have Tesla chargers now and yes there are a lot of Tesla’s around here. I would not want to take one on a long trip but for local/regional travel they are pretty damn good cars, 0 to 60 in 3 seconds.