The drive is 176.5 miles, about 3h 26m. Along it sit about 91 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 75 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 Benton Harbor at 10:50 am and arrive in Grand Rapids around 12:45 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Chicago, IL | ||
| 10:50 am Break · mile 96 | Benton Harbor, MI Meijer 041 (Benton Harbor, MI) | 350 kW 6 stalls | 🐔 Chick-fil-A 6 min, 🍟 McDonald's 7 min, 🥪 Subway 7 min |
| ~12:45 pm | Arrive in Grand Rapids, MI |
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 180 kW, with 62 stops at 150 kW or more and 21 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 24 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, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's break in Benton Harbor, MI at 10:50 am: Chick-fil-A is a 6-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. In all, 75 of the roughly 91 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 91 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 177-mile route, 87 of them 50 kW or more. 62 charge at 150 kW or more, 21 are on the Tesla network, and 75 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 24 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 38 chargers), Subway (36), Starbucks (28), Burger King (27), Dunkin' (27) and Chipotle (22).
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 Benton Harbor, MI; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Benton Harbor, MI. 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 26m of driving for 177 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 12:45 pm.