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I can't speak for the latter part, but the former is doable. Assuming you actually want to spend a full 24 hours driving. I say this as someone who did nearly exactly one third the distance in one third the time. Depends on your car of course and if you can fast charge. The real world range on mine ended up being a bit less than 200 miles (260 EPA range) going just over 80MPH in Texas, and it had fast charging capabilities.
That said, I wouldn't recommend it in the vehicle I used. Really need more like 300+ range to make it decent. Cause I had to fully charge at times to make it to the next fast charger and a full charge is at least twice as long as a quick charge, which is typically going from 20% to 80%. Longer range means mostly only having to charge to 80%. That saves a bunch of time.
Typical degradation at 7 years wouldn't be bad, but with the type of driving you do I expect the degradation will be worse.