The drive is 146.1 miles, about 2h 43m. Along it sit about 57 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 50 of those have somewhere to eat within a 10-minute walk, so the charging stop and the meal are the same stop.
Open this drive in the app →Leave Atlanta at 8:00 am, take a break in Oxford at 8:35 am and arrive in Birmingham around 10:05 am.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Atlanta, GA | ||
| 8:35 am Break · mile 87 | Oxford, AL Walmart 809 (Oxford, AL) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🐔 Chick-fil-A 3 min, 🧇 Waffle House 4 min, 🍔 Wendy's 5 minacross hwy |
| ~10:05 am | Arrive in Birmingham, AL |
Meals fall near their local hour (times are local at each stop), with about 20 minutes for a break and 40 for a meal. It is a driver’s plan, not a charging plan: where you need to charge depends on your car. Open this drive in the app to pick another leaving time.
Typical power along this route is 180 kW, with 32 stops at 150 kW or more and 13 on the Tesla network. Chargers under 50 kW are left out of the list — on a drive this length they cost more time than they save. Counting every DC fast charger, there is one at least every 31 miles of the way.
In order along the route — the strongest stop in each stretch of the drive, so the list covers the whole route rather than filling up with the city you left.
Leaving Atlanta at 8:00 am, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's break in Oxford, AL at 8:35 am: Chick-fil-A is a 3-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. In all, 50 of the roughly 57 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 57 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 146-mile route, 56 of them 50 kW or more. 32 charge at 150 kW or more, 13 are on the Tesla network, and 50 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
31 miles, between mile 53 (Tallapoosa, GA) and mile 84 (Oxford, AL), with no DC fast charger within 5 miles of the route.
Counting the fast chargers of 50 kW or more on the route, the chains most often within a 10-minute walk are Waffle House (near 22 chargers), Chick-fil-A (18), Subway (17), McDonald's (14), Dunkin' (13) and Starbucks (13).
It depends on the car. The app's estimate for a 10–80% charge is about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Oxford, AL; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Oxford, AL. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 2h 43m of driving for 146 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 10:05 am.