The drive is 455.5 miles, about 8h 17m. Along it sit about 156 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 132 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 Cordele at 10:35 am, stop for lunch in Valdosta at 12:25 pm, take a break in Reddick at 3:15 pm and arrive in Tampa around 5:35 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Atlanta, GA | ||
| 10:35 am Break · mile 141 | Cordele, GA Cordele, GA Rechargery Relay - E 16th Ave | 400 kW 16 stalls | 🍳 Denny's 3 min, 🥩 Arby's 4 min, 🧇 Waffle House 2 minacross hwy |
| 12:25 pm Lunch · mile 225 | Valdosta, GA Walmart 899 (Valdosta, GA) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🥪 Subway 2 min |
| 3:15 pm Break · mile 345 | Reddick, FL TA W Highway 318, Reddick, FL | 400 kW 12 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 1 min |
| ~5:35 pm | Arrive in Tampa, FL |
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 250 kW, with 108 stops at 150 kW or more and 45 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 43 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 Valdosta, GA around 12:25 pm, where Subway is a 2-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Cordele, GA at 10:35 am, Denny's 3 min from the charger; Reddick, FL at 3:15 pm, Wendy's 1 min from the charger. In all, 132 of the roughly 156 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 156 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 455-mile route, 150 of them 50 kW or more. 108 charge at 150 kW or more, 45 are on the Tesla network, and 132 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
43 miles, between mile 181 (Tifton, GA) and mile 224 (Valdosta, GA), 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 McDonald's (near 58 chargers), Wendy's (55), Burger King (49), Subway (49), Waffle House (47) and Chick-fil-A (41).
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 Cordele, GA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Cordele, GA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Cordele, 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 8h 17m of driving for 455 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 2 breaks of about 20 minutes and 1 meal of about 40, you arrive around 5:35 pm.