It does depend on your journey type but the LR charges significantly faster and in a 10-80% top up that will make a difference, you are unlikely to want to wait to top up your SR to 90%, let alone 100%.
Charge cycles are a red herring: 1,500 cycles @ 230 miles each for LR = 345,000 miles! Unless you are a taxi driver that keeps cars for years, will make no difference.
LFP is safer but battery fires are far rarer than ICE engine fires, so it is all relative.
I would have bought an LFP Trophy if that existed, SR is good enough for many.
LFP are certainly safer than Li-Ion principle since the electrolyte in a Li-Ion cell (ie the solution between the Anode and Cathode through which the "Ions" of Lithium travel in the charge and discharge of the cell), is inflammable but less so in LFP chemistry. In fact, the BYD "Blade" LFP cell can have a nail driven through it without initiating any combustion - try that with Li-Ion and it will burst into flames.
That all said, the number of car fires involving EV v ICE is staggeringly small even though by far the majority of EVs have the less stable Li-Ion battery cell. In the USA they have had a worst time of it than in the UK because GM has had a big problem with the Chevie Bolt's LG-Chem batteries prompting a massive recall and battery replacement programme plus vehicle buyback. the Bolt hasn't been on sale in the UK so our percentage of EVs with any potential problem will be much lower.
But the numbers tell the story not hype and the media miss information. Even in America with the aforementioned Bolt issue, the numbers of EV fires are tiny per 100,000 registrations compared with ICE per 100,000 registrations. An extract from Autoweek reporting on the numbers in the US Insurance researchers tells an interesting story and something I'd not considered before that is Hybrids are the most vehicle fire-prone, I guess since they are at risk from both their ICE and EV and I imagine that the battery in a Hybrid being small is worked pretty hard.
"Researchers from insurance deal site
Auto Insurance EZ compiled sales and accident data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the National Transportation Safety Board. The site found that
hybrid vehicles had the most fires per 100,000 sales at 3474.5.
There were 1529.9 fires per 100k for gas (ICE) vehicles
and just 25.1 fires per 100k sales for electric vehicles."
(
How Much Should You Worry About EV Fires?)
In other words, an ICE car is 60.9 times more likely to have a fire than an EV. Bear in mind also that a Hybrid car is 138.4 times more likely to have a car fire.
As I say these are American figures but other than the Bolt issue with would swing the numbers even more in favour of the EV I can't see why the figures should be very much different on UK Roads.
Just as a final thought. It isn't necessarily the fuel which causes a car fire. Many years ago a resident of the property next door to where I worked returned from a shopping trip and parked his car in the detached garage. minutes later thick smoke was seen coming from the garage but after the fire was attended by the brigade and extinguished the fire I spoke to the fireman. They said that the most common cause in a situation like this is that hydraulic brake fluid drips onto a hot exhaust pipe and will combust far more easily than diesel or even petrol which simply vapourises. EVs do not have any such super hot surfaces so are not at such risk, but I would hope that car makers of ICE vehicles would have by now designed this weakness out of their products.
