The drive is 127.6 miles, about 2h 33m. Along it sit about 200 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 181 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 Beaumont at 9:35 am and arrive in Joshua Tree around 10:50 am.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 9:35 am Break · mile 80 | Beaumont, CA Beaumont, CA - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 20 stalls | 🍔 In-N-Out 1 min, 🐕 Raising Cane's 2 min, 🚗 Sonic 3 min |
| ~10:50 am | Arrive in Joshua Tree, CA |
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 125 kW, with 95 stops at 150 kW or more and 52 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 21 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 Los Angeles at 8:00 am, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's break in Beaumont, CA at 9:35 am: In-N-Out is a 1-minute walk from a 250 kW charger. In all, 181 of the roughly 200 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 200 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 128-mile route, 197 of them 50 kW or more. 95 charge at 150 kW or more, 52 are on the Tesla network, and 181 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 21 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 104 chargers), McDonald's (71), Subway (62), Chipotle (56), Jack in the Box (49) and Carl's Jr. (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 250 kW charger in Beaumont, 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 2h 33m of driving for 128 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 10:50 am.