The drive is 490.9 miles, about 8h 54m. Along it sit about 199 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 177 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 Los Angeles at 8:00 am, take a break in Barstow at 10:05 am, stop for lunch in Needles at 1:00 pm, stop for dinner in Williams at 5:50 pm and arrive in Grand Canyon Village around 7:35 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 10:05 am Break · mile 115 | Barstow, CA Barstow, CA - 1503 East Main Street - Tesla Supercharger | 325 kW 120 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 1 min, ⭐ Carl's Jr. 1 min, ☕ Starbucks 2 min |
| 10:35 am | No fast charger for 98 mi from mile 124 to mile 222 | None within 5 mi of the route | |
| 1:00 pm Lunch · mile 257 | Needles, CA City of Needles Charging Depot (Needles, CA) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 1 min, 🤡 Jack in the Box 2 min |
| 5:50 pm Dinner · mile 432 | Williams, AZ La Quinta Grand Canyon (Williams, AZ) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 9 min, ☕ Starbucks 6 min |
| ~7:35 pm | Arrive in Grand Canyon Village, AZ |
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 105 stops at 150 kW or more and 59 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 98 miles, between mile 124 and mile 222.
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 Los Angeles at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Needles, CA around 1:00 pm, where McDonald's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger; dinner falls in Williams, AZ around 5:50 pm, where McDonald's is a 9-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Barstow, CA at 10:05 am has Taco Bell 1 min from the charger. In all, 177 of the roughly 199 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 199 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 491-mile route, 195 of them 50 kW or more. 105 charge at 150 kW or more, 59 are on the Tesla network, and 177 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
98 miles, between mile 124 (Yermo, CA) and mile 222 (Essex Fenner, CA), 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 102 chargers), McDonald's (72), Subway (70), Carl's Jr. (52), Chipotle (49) and Jack in the Box (47).
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 325 kW charger in Barstow, CA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Needles, CA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Needles, CA. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 8h 54m of driving for 491 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes and 2 meals of about 40, you arrive around 7:35 pm.