The drive is 272.8 miles, about 4h 54m. Along it sit about 128 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 108 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 Bellmead at 9:35 am, take a break in Austin at 11:35 am, stop for lunch in New Braunfels at 12:55 pm and arrive in San Antonio around 2:15 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Dallas, TX | ||
| 9:35 am Break · mile 90 | Bellmead, TX Walmart 1254 (Bellmead, TX) | 350 kW 6 stalls | 🍗 Popeyes 2 min, 🤡 Jack in the Box 2 min, 🐔 Chick-fil-A 2 min |
| 11:35 am Break · mile 180 | Austin, TX 15900 N Interstate | 350 kW 7 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 1 min, 🥪 Subway 4 minacross hwy |
| 12:55 pm Lunch · mile 238 | New Braunfels, TX Buc-ee's New Braunfels | 400 kW 10 stalls | 🐼 Panda Express 1 min, 🍔 Whataburger 1 min, 🥪 Subway 2 min |
| ~2:15 pm | Arrive in San Antonio, TX |
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 95 stops at 150 kW or more and 34 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 Dallas at 8:00 am, lunch falls in New Braunfels, TX around 12:55 pm, where Panda Express is a 1-minute walk from a 400 kW charger. The breaks: Bellmead, TX at 9:35 am, Popeyes 2 min from the charger; Austin, TX at 11:35 am, McDonald's 1 min from the charger. In all, 108 of the roughly 128 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 128 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 273-mile route, 126 of them 50 kW or more. 95 charge at 150 kW or more, 34 are on the Tesla network, and 108 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 McDonald's (near 37 chargers), Starbucks (37), Whataburger (32), Subway (31), Wendy's (23) and Taco Bell (21).
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 New Braunfels, TX; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in New Braunfels, TX; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in New Braunfels, TX. 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 54m of driving for 273 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 2:15 pm.