The drive is 344.6 miles, about 6h 29m. Along it sit about 114 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 104 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 Chicago at 8:00 am, take a break in Mishawaka at 10:45 am, stop for lunch in Edon at 12:35 pm, take a break in Fremont at 2:55 pm and arrive in Cleveland around 4:50 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Chicago, IL | ||
| 10:45 am Break · mile 95 | Mishawaka, IN University Park Mall (Mishawaka, IN) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍔 Five Guys 3 min, ☕ Starbucks 4 min, 🍔 Wendy's 4 min |
| 12:35 pm Lunch · mile 174 | Edon, OH Flying J | 350 kW 4 stalls | 👑 Burger King 1 min, 🥪 Subway 2 min |
| 2:55 pm Break · mile 263 | Fremont, OH Steinle GMC Cadillac | 50 kW 2 stalls | 🍩 Dunkin' 2 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 3 min, 🍕 Pizza Hut 5 min |
| ~4:50 pm | Arrive in Cleveland, OH |
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 74 stops at 150 kW or more and 34 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 54 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 Chicago at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Edon, OH around 12:35 pm, where Burger King is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Mishawaka, IN at 10:45 am, Five Guys 3 min from the charger; Fremont, OH at 2:55 pm, Dunkin' 2 min from the charger. In all, 104 of the roughly 114 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 114 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 345-mile route, 110 of them 50 kW or more. 74 charge at 150 kW or more, 34 are on the Tesla network, and 104 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
54 miles, between mile 263 (Fremont, OH) and mile 317 (Elyria, OH), 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 48 chargers), McDonald's (43), Subway (39), Dunkin' (34), Chipotle (29) and Burger King (28).
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 Mishawaka, IN; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Mishawaka, IN. 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 29m of driving for 345 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 4:50 pm.