The drive is 308.7 miles, about 6h 09m. Along it sit about 137 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 117 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 Mojave at 9:55 am, stop for lunch in Lone Pine at 12:30 pm and arrive in Mammoth Lakes around 3:10 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 9:55 am Break · mile 95 | Mojave, CA Mojave, CA - Sierra Hwy - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 12 stalls | 🍳 Denny's 1 min, 🥪 Subway 3 min, ⭐ Carl's Jr. 6 min |
| 12:30 pm Lunch · mile 209 | Lone Pine, CA Lone Pine, CA - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 16 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 2 min, 🍦 Ice cream shop 7 min, 🥪 Subway 7 min |
| ~3:10 pm | Arrive in Mammoth Lakes, 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 64 stops at 150 kW or more and 34 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 46 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, lunch falls in Lone Pine, CA around 12:30 pm, where McDonald's is a 2-minute walk from a 250 kW charger. The break in Mojave, CA at 9:55 am has Denny's 1 min from the charger. In all, 117 of the roughly 137 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 137 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 309-mile route, 134 of them 50 kW or more. 64 charge at 150 kW or more, 34 are on the Tesla network, and 117 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
46 miles, between mile 96 (Mojave, CA) and mile 142 (Inyokern, 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 71 chargers), Subway (61), McDonald's (45), Panda Express (42), Chipotle (34) and Carl's Jr. (32).
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 Mojave, 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 6h 09m of driving for 309 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 3:10 pm.