The drive is 354.1 miles, about 6h 50m. Along it sit about 125 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 105 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 Lafayette at 11:20 am, stop for lunch in Indianapolis at 12:50 pm, take a break in Huber Heights at 3:40 pm and arrive in Columbus around 5:10 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Chicago, IL | ||
| 11:20 am Break · mile 120 | Lafayette, IN Lafayette, IN Rechargery Relay @ Wawa - North Creasy Lane | 400 kW 12 stalls | 🐕 Raising Cane's 1 min, 🐔 Chick-fil-A 1 min, 🐼 Panda Express 2 min |
| 12:50 pm Lunch · mile 180 | Indianapolis, IN Meijer-Meijer 154 (Indianapolis, IN) | 350 kW 6 stalls | 🐼 Panda Express 1 min, 🍎 Applebee's 1 min, 🍔 Wendy's 2 min |
| 3:40 pm Break · mile 293 | Huber Heights, OH Walmart 1495 (Huber Heights, OH) | 350 kW 6 stalls | 🧇 Waffle House 4 min, ⭐ Hardee's 5 min, 🚗 Sonic 5 min |
| ~5:10 pm | Arrive in Columbus, 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 81 stops at 150 kW or more and 30 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 33 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 Indianapolis, IN around 12:50 pm, where Panda Express is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Lafayette, IN at 11:20 am, Raising Cane's 1 min from the charger; Huber Heights, OH at 3:40 pm, Waffle House 4 min from the charger. In all, 105 of the roughly 125 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 125 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 354-mile route, 120 of them 50 kW or more. 81 charge at 150 kW or more, 30 are on the Tesla network, and 105 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
33 miles, between mile 121 (Lafayette, IN) and mile 154 (Lebanon, IN), 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 49 chargers), McDonald's (47), Subway (43), Chipotle (35), Wendy's (33) and Taco Bell (28).
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 Lafayette, IN; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Lafayette, IN; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Lafayette, 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 50m of driving for 354 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 5:10 pm.