The drive is 251.3 miles, about 4h 52m. Along it sit about 75 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 61 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 Cincinnati at 8:00 am, take a break in Columbus at 10:05 am, stop for lunch in Burbank at 12:20 pm and arrive in Cleveland around 1:50 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Cincinnati, OH | ||
| 10:05 am Break · mile 107 | Columbus, OH Pilot Travel Center | 350 kW 6 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 1 min, 🍟 McDonald's 1 min, 🧇 Waffle House 3 min |
| 12:20 pm Lunch · mile 205 | Burbank, OH Pilot Flying J Store | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 1 min, 🍟 McDonald's 1 min, 👑 Burger King 2 min |
| ~1:50 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 120 kW, with 33 stops at 150 kW or more and 15 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 39 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 Cincinnati at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Burbank, OH around 12:20 pm, where Wendy's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Columbus, OH at 10:05 am has Wendy's 1 min from the charger. In all, 61 of the roughly 75 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 75 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 251-mile route, 69 of them 50 kW or more. 33 charge at 150 kW or more, 15 are on the Tesla network, and 61 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
39 miles, between mile 31 (Lebanon, OH) and mile 70 (Jeffersonville, 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 McDonald's (near 31 chargers), Starbucks (31), Wendy's (28), Chipotle (26), Subway (24) and Burger King (16).
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 Columbus, OH; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Columbus, OH. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 4h 52m of driving for 251 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes and 1 meal of about 40, you arrive around 1:50 pm.