The drive is 264.5 miles, about 5h 43m. Along it sit about 110 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 91 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 Boston at 8:00 am, take a break in Portland at 10:15 am, stop for lunch in Augusta at 11:45 am and arrive in Bar Harbor around 2:45 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Boston, MA | ||
| 10:15 am Break · mile 105 | Portland, ME High St. Lot | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍦 Ice cream shop 1 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 8 min, ☕ Starbucks 10 min |
| 11:45 am Lunch · mile 160 | Augusta, ME Augusta, ME - Civic Center Drive - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 16 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 1 min, 🍗 KFC 2 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 2 min |
| ~2:45 pm | Arrive in Bar Harbor, ME |
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 150 kW, with 63 stops at 150 kW or more and 28 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 Boston at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Augusta, ME around 11:45 am, where Wendy's is a 1-minute walk from a 250 kW charger. The break in Portland, ME at 10:15 am has Ice cream shop 1 min from the charger. In all, 91 of the roughly 110 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 110 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 264-mile route, 104 of them 50 kW or more. 63 charge at 150 kW or more, 28 are on the Tesla network, and 91 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
43 miles, between mile 163 (Augusta, ME) and mile 206 (Belfast, ME), 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 Dunkin' (near 57 chargers), Starbucks (40), McDonald's (39), Subway (26), Chipotle (23) and Panera Bread (21).
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 250 kW charger in Augusta, ME; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Portland, ME; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Portland, ME. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 5h 43m of driving for 264 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 2:45 pm.