According to a better route planner, the same journey would take 12 hours 9 mins in my Tesla Model Y including 3 charging stops totalling 45 mins which is about the same amount of time you stopped for. The car could do it in 2 stops but it would take slightly longer to do it, I doubt I could do it in 2 stops though, I'd probably want to do 3.
A better route planner is usually pessimistic in terms of energy consumption so I've got plenty of confidence that I'd make that time no problems.
I get that a Tesla Model Y isn't £18,000 but it also isn't a Dacia Jogger. I don't say that to diss the Jogger, its got its place in the market, its just that the Tesla is an objectively better car in every way other than price.
EDIT: I just realised I had ABRP in caravan mode with a max speed of 60mph - fail. Removing the limit reduces the time to 11 hours 4 mins including 58 mins of charging over 3 stops. Looks reasonable to me.
Oh, and if anyone has experience of the Fiat 500e at all as a town/city/maybe occasional ~100 mile trip car I'd like to pick your brains please
I've not driven one but 500e is a good little car if you manage your expectations in terms of range but 100 miles should be more than achievable. If anything its a bit expensive for what it is, I'm pretty sure you can get a used VW ID.3 for similar money and doesn't have the tiny city car limitations.
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and did a number of similar drives just because the place is vast and whilst we did do stops, they were sight seeing, not many long fuelling stops in 3000 miles, an EV would have been a challenge in that scenario, just because of the time needed and the planning, but just something you can do when you have a big tank of easily replaceable fuel and fuel is cheap, well compared to here anyway.