The drive is 198.7 miles, about 4h 05m. Along it sit about 71 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 49 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 Edwards at 10:15 am and arrive in Aspen around 12:25 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Denver, CO | ||
| 10:15 am Break · mile 110 | Edwards, CO East-West Resorts Edwards Station (Edwards, CO) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 1 min, 🥪 Subway 1 min, ☕ Starbucks 9 min |
| ~12:25 pm | Arrive in Aspen, CO |
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 180 kW, with 39 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 25 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 Denver at 8:00 am, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's break in Edwards, CO at 10:15 am: Wendy's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. In all, 49 of the roughly 71 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 71 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 199-mile route, 70 of them 50 kW or more. 39 charge at 150 kW or more, 15 are on the Tesla network, and 49 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 25 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 30 chargers), Wendy's (18), McDonald's (15), Subway (14), Taco Bell (14) and Chipotle (11).
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 Edwards, CO; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Edwards, CO. 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 05m of driving for 199 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 12:25 pm.