The drive is 163.8 miles, about 3h 16m. Along it sit about 81 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 70 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 Charlotte at 8:00 am, take a break in Greensboro at 9:45 am and arrive in Raleigh around 11:35 am.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Charlotte, NC | ||
| 9:45 am Break · mile 89 | Greensboro, NC Target T1180 (Greensboro, NC) | 350 kW 12 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 1 min, 🥖 Panera Bread 3 min, 🤠 Texas Roadhouse 5 min |
| ~11:35 am | Arrive in Raleigh, NC |
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 54 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 14 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 Charlotte at 8:00 am, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's break in Greensboro, NC at 9:45 am: Starbucks is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. In all, 70 of the roughly 81 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 81 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 164-mile route, 78 of them 50 kW or more. 54 charge at 150 kW or more, 25 are on the Tesla network, and 70 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 14 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 McDonald's (near 27 chargers), Starbucks (26), Subway (24), Wendy's (21), Bojangles (20) and Taco Bell (20).
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 Greensboro, NC; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Greensboro, NC. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 3h 16m of driving for 164 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 11:35 am.