As a runabout, I think the Renault 5, and the spicy cousin, the Alpine A290, are an excellent choice. They both sound like fun to drive, have a reasonable interior space and enough performance to make them enjoyable to drive.
Honda did a study before releasing the Honda E, which had an atrocious range (real world circa 80-100 iirc), which showed that the average UK car journey was under 10-miles. In owning a smaller EV, I have to say, the range anxiety element was the biggest hurdle. However, in reality, bar one very long journey, in the winter, which was supposed to be 110 miles (and I left with the charge showing 160 mile range), I have never even come close to needing to stop to charge. On the journey mentioned, I ended up on the motorway for a large chunk of the trip (there and back) at 70mph (so no chance to re-gen and really motorways are the bane of EVs in terms of battery drain), then got stuck in heavy urban traffic for the in-bound journey for 10+ miles (so again zero re-gen). On the return trip, I put the car into full eco-mode, which cuts down on the system use (afaik, really only limits the climate control fan speed and also reduces acceleration rate) to conserve power. At the end of the journey I was down to circa 5-miles range. So all in all, range anxiety, in my use case, has been unfounded.
