The drive is 452.7 miles, about 7h 48m. Along it sit about 56 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 48 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 Dallas at 8:00 am, take a break in New Boston at 10:40 am, stop for lunch in Arkadelphia at 12:40 pm, take a break in Brinkley at 3:35 pm and arrive in Memphis around 5:10 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Dallas, TX | ||
| 10:40 am Break · mile 154 | New Boston, TX New Boston, TX - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 16 stalls | 🍳 Denny's 1 min |
| 12:40 pm Lunch · mile 251 | Arkadelphia, AR Hamburger Barn | 350 kW 2 stalls | 👑 Burger King 2 min, 🥪 Subway 3 min |
| 3:35 pm Break · mile 382 | Brinkley, AR Brinkley, AR - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 8 stalls | 🧇 Waffle House 2 min, 🥪 Subway 2 min, 🍟 McDonald's 3 min |
| ~5:10 pm | Arrive in Memphis, TN |
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 250 kW, with 42 stops at 150 kW or more and 12 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 56 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 Dallas at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Arkadelphia, AR around 12:40 pm, where Burger King is a 2-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: New Boston, TX at 10:40 am, Denny's 1 min from the charger; Brinkley, AR at 3:35 pm, Waffle House 2 min from the charger. In all, 48 of the roughly 56 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 56 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 453-mile route, 52 of them 50 kW or more. 42 charge at 150 kW or more, 12 are on the Tesla network, and 48 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
56 miles, between mile 326 (North Little Rock, AR) and mile 382 (Brinkley, AR), 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 13 chargers), Subway (13), Burger King (11), Sonic (11), Taco Bell (10) and Wendy's (10).
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 250 kW charger in New Boston, TX; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Arkadelphia, AR; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Arkadelphia, AR. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 7h 48m of driving for 453 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.