The drive is 288.9 miles, about 5h 01m. Along it sit about 95 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 71 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 Detroit at 8:00 am, take a break in Bay City at 10:00 am, stop for lunch in Gaylord at 12:20 pm and arrive in Mackinaw City around 2:00 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Detroit, MI | ||
| 10:00 am Break · mile 114 | Bay City, MI Meijer Bay City (Bay City, MI) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍦 Culver's 3 min, 🪵 Cracker Barrel 8 min |
| 12:20 pm Lunch · mile 232 | Gaylord, MI Meijer Gaylord (Gaylord, MI) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🦬 Buffalo Wild Wings 2 min |
| ~2:00 pm | Arrive in Mackinaw City, MI |
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 66 stops at 150 kW or more and 6 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 55 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 Detroit at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Gaylord, MI around 12:20 pm, where Buffalo Wild Wings is a 2-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Bay City, MI at 10:00 am has Culver's 3 min from the charger. In all, 71 of the roughly 95 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 95 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 289-mile route, 91 of them 50 kW or more. 66 charge at 150 kW or more, 6 are on the Tesla network, and 71 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
55 miles, between mile 232 (Gaylord, MI) and mile 287 (Mackinaw City, MI), 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 37 chargers), Subway (32), Starbucks (22), Taco Bell (22), Burger King (21) and Arby's (15).
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 Bay City, MI; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Bay City, MI. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 5h 01m of driving for 289 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes and 1 meal of about 40, you arrive around 2:00 pm.