The drive is 355.1 miles, about 6h 33m. Along it sit about 80 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 62 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 10:00 am, take a break in Parachute at 12:00 pm, stop for lunch in Fruita at 1:20 pm and arrive in Moab around 3:55 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Denver, CO | ||
| 10:00 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 |
| 12:00 pm Break · mile 198 | Parachute, CO Parachute, CO - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 12 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 2 min, 🥪 Subway 6 minacross hwy |
| 1:20 pm Lunch · mile 253 | Fruita, CO Fruita, CO Rechargery Relay - Kokopelli Blvd | 400 kW 10 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 1 min, 🍔 Wendy's 2 min, 🍟 McDonald's 3 min |
| 2:00 pm | No fast charger for 65 mi from mile 253 to mile 318 | None within 5 mi of the route | |
| ~3:55 pm | Arrive in Moab, UT |
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 200 kW, with 49 stops at 150 kW or more and 20 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 65 miles, between mile 253 and mile 318.
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 Fruita, CO around 1:20 pm, where Taco Bell is a 1-minute walk from a 400 kW charger. The breaks: Edwards, CO at 10:00 am, Wendy's 1 min from the charger; Parachute, CO at 12:00 pm, Wendy's 2 min from the charger. In all, 62 of the roughly 80 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 80 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 355-mile route, 79 of them 50 kW or more. 49 charge at 150 kW or more, 20 are on the Tesla network, and 62 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
65 miles, between mile 253 (Fruita, CO) and mile 318 (Thompson Springs, UT), 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 38 chargers), Wendy's (24), McDonald's (21), Subway (21), Taco Bell (21) and Chipotle (12).
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 Fruita, CO; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Fruita, CO; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Fruita, 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 6h 33m of driving for 355 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 3:55 pm.