The drive is 199.0 miles, about 3h 53m. Along it sit about 152 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 121 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 Janesville at 10:10 am and arrive in Wisconsin Dells around 12:15 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Chicago, IL | ||
| 10:10 am Break · mile 113 | Janesville, WI Janesville, WI Rechargery Relay - Morse St | 400 kW 16 stalls | 🌯 Chipotle 1 min, 🍗 Popeyes 1 min, 🥩 Arby's 1 min |
| ~12:15 pm | Arrive in Wisconsin Dells, WI |
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 105 stops at 150 kW or more and 27 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 29 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 Janesville, WI at 10:10 am: Chipotle is a 1-minute walk from a 400 kW charger. In all, 121 of the roughly 152 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 152 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 199-mile route, 149 of them 50 kW or more. 105 charge at 150 kW or more, 27 are on the Tesla network, and 121 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 29 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 Starbucks (near 67 chargers), Subway (62), Dunkin' (57), McDonald's (56), Chipotle (38) and Burger King (36).
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 Janesville, WI; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Janesville, WI; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Janesville, WI. 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 53m of driving for 199 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 12:15 pm.