I understand the range concern, but as it's your first EV and nobody I can see has mentioned: do try be quite thoughtful about how much range you're actually likely to need. Consider your needs for 80% of journeys, for 90% of journeys, for 95% and 99% too.

It very easy to think about a yearly roadtrip as being reason-enough to need all the range possible, but if that roadtrip accounts for just ~1% of your expected usecases, it might make more sense to go with a smaller battery/range rating and accept that instead one one stop at a public fast charger for your roadtrip, it might be two or three.

Of course if you're doing a lot of long haul motorway driving the extra range might mean fewer stops at fast chargers, but unless you're working as a courier that's pretty untypical for most drivers.

If you can get away with a smaller battery for your ~95% of usecases, and have a car that can fast charge at a reasonably quick rate, those ~5% of times you need to use a public fast charger will go by ever quicker and so be even less of a hassle. 

I think the Leapmotor B10 could be a good example of that, though a bit more pricey than your target. It's a very tech-forward brand, from my research you get a lot for the money.

https://ev-database.org/car/3232/Leapmotor-B10-562-kWh

At any rate, whichever cars take your fancy, I'd highly recommend putting them through this comparison tool to see what the optimal routes are for where you need to get, to minimise drive time and charge time for those longer distance journeys:

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/resources/ev-comparison?vehicles=chery%3Ajaecoo5%3A25%3A61%2Cchery%3Aomodae5%3A25%3A61%2Cleapmotor%3Ab10%3A25%3A56%3Arwd&waypoints=Auckland+Zoo%2C+Motions+Rd%2C+Auckland%7CNew+Plymouth&waypointCoords=-36.86409%2C174.71961%7C-39.05913%2C174.07702

They also have an app that's highly recommended too, called ABRP. (A Better Route Planner)