The drive is 446.3 miles, about 7h 48m. Along it sit about 141 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 115 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 Denver at 8:00 am, take a break in Pueblo at 9:50 am, stop for lunch in Raton at 12:10 pm, take a break in Las Vegas at 2:35 pm and arrive in Albuquerque around 5:05 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Denver, CO | ||
| 9:50 am Break · mile 107 | Pueblo, CO Sam's Club 6549 (Pueblo, CO) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🥪 Subway 1 min, 👑 Burger King 2 min, 🤠 Texas Roadhouse 2 min |
| 12:10 pm Lunch · mile 218 | Raton, NM Arby's #5776 - Raton | 400 kW 4 stalls | 🥩 Arby's 1 min, 🍟 McDonald's 1 min, 🍳 Denny's 1 min |
| 12:50 pm | No fast charger for 63 mi from mile 219 to mile 282 | None within 5 mi of the route | |
| 2:35 pm Break · mile 322 | Las Vegas, NM Las Vegas, NM - Tesla Supercharger | 150 kW 6 stalls | 🥪 Subway 4 min |
| ~5:05 pm | Arrive in Albuquerque, NM |
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 160 kW, with 79 stops at 150 kW or more and 24 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, the longest stretch without one is 63 miles, between mile 219 and mile 282.
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 Denver at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Raton, NM around 12:10 pm, where Arby's is a 1-minute walk from a 400 kW charger. The breaks: Pueblo, CO at 9:50 am, Subway 1 min from the charger; Las Vegas, NM at 2:35 pm, Subway 4 min from the charger. In all, 115 of the roughly 141 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 141 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 446-mile route, 136 of them 50 kW or more. 79 charge at 150 kW or more, 24 are on the Tesla network, and 115 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
63 miles, between mile 219 (Raton, NM) and mile 282 (Wagon Mound, NM), 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 Starbucks (near 57 chargers), McDonald's (45), Subway (41), Taco Bell (29), Chipotle (28) and Chick-fil-A (22).
It depends on the car. The app's estimate for a 10–80% charge is about 38 min for a Tesla Model Y at the 150 kW charger in Las Vegas, NM; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Raton, NM; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Raton, NM. 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 446 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 5:05 pm.