The drive is 214.3 miles, about 4h 42m. Along it sit about 262 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 228 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 North Haven at 10:50 am, stop for lunch in Greenwich at 12:20 pm and arrive in New York around 1:40 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Boston, MA | ||
| 10:50 am Break · mile 131 | North Haven, CT North Haven | 400 kW 10 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 4 min, 🍔 Wendy's 7 min, 🦬 Buffalo Wild Wings 7 min |
| 12:20 pm Lunch · mile 181 | Greenwich, CT RT 15 Greenwich NB Service Plaza | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🥪 Subway 1 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 1 min |
| ~1:40 pm | Arrive in New York, NY |
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 134 stops at 150 kW or more and 69 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 13 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 Greenwich, CT around 12:20 pm, where Subway is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in North Haven, CT at 10:50 am has Starbucks 4 min from the charger. In all, 228 of the roughly 262 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 262 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 214-mile route, 257 of them 50 kW or more. 134 charge at 150 kW or more, 69 are on the Tesla network, and 228 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 13 miles: there is a DC fast charger within 5 miles of the route at least that often.
Counting the fast chargers of 50 kW or more on the route, the chains most often within a 10-minute walk are Dunkin' (near 163 chargers), McDonald's (121), Starbucks (107), Subway (80), Chipotle (61) and Taco Bell (43).
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 North Haven, CT; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in North Haven, CT; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in North Haven, CT. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 4h 42m of driving for 214 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 1:40 pm.