The drive is 358.2 miles, about 6h 57m. Along it sit about 91 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 78 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 Augusta at 10:45 am, stop for lunch in Columbia at 12:30 pm and arrive in Myrtle Beach around 3:55 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Atlanta, GA | ||
| 10:45 am Break · mile 140 | Augusta, GA Crane Creek Shopping Center | 400 kW 10 stalls | 🍔 Five Guys 1 min, 🧇 Waffle House 5 min, 🦬 Buffalo Wild Wings 7 minacross hwy |
| 12:30 pm Lunch · mile 215 | Columbia, SC Flying J Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍳 Denny's 1 min, ⭐ Hardee's 1 min |
| ~3:55 pm | Arrive in Myrtle Beach, SC |
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 240 kW, with 53 stops at 150 kW or more and 25 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 51 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, lunch falls in Columbia, SC around 12:30 pm, where Denny's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Augusta, GA at 10:45 am has Five Guys 1 min from the charger. In all, 78 of the roughly 91 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 91 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 358-mile route, 86 of them 50 kW or more. 53 charge at 150 kW or more, 25 are on the Tesla network, and 78 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
51 miles, between mile 291 (Florence, SC) and mile 342 (Conway, SC), 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 Starbucks (near 33 chargers), Chick-fil-A (31), Waffle House (29), Burger King (25), McDonald's (22) and Wendy's (22).
It depends on the car. The app's estimate for a 10–80% charge is about 23 min for a Tesla Model Y at the 400 kW charger in Augusta, GA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Augusta, GA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Augusta, GA. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 6h 57m of driving for 358 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes and 1 meal of about 40, you arrive around 3:55 pm.