The drive is 384.1 miles, about 7h 05m. Along it sit about 249 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 221 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 Lost Hills at 10:35 am, stop for lunch in Firebaugh at 12:35 pm, take a break in Manteca at 3:00 pm and arrive in Sacramento around 4:25 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 10:35 am Break · mile 142 | Lost Hills, CA Raju Countryside Market (Lost Hills, CA) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 1 min, 🍕 Pizza Hut 1 min, 🍔 Wendy's 1 min |
| 12:35 pm Lunch · mile 232 | Firebaugh, CA Panoche Shell (Firebaugh, CA) | 350 kW 6 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 1 min, 🥪 Subway 2 min, 🍟 McDonald's 2 min |
| 3:00 pm Break · mile 325 | Manteca, CA Stadium Shopping Center | 350 kW 8 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 2 min, ☕ Starbucks 2 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 2 min |
| ~4:25 pm | Arrive in Sacramento, 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 160 kW, with 130 stops at 150 kW or more and 62 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 34 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 Firebaugh, CA around 12:35 pm, where Taco Bell is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Lost Hills, CA at 10:35 am, Taco Bell 1 min from the charger; Manteca, CA at 3:00 pm, McDonald's 2 min from the charger. In all, 221 of the roughly 249 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 249 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 384-mile route, 242 of them 50 kW or more. 130 charge at 150 kW or more, 62 are on the Tesla network, and 221 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
34 miles, between mile 198 (Coalinga, CA) and mile 232 (Firebaugh, 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 139 chargers), Subway (106), McDonald's (105), Panda Express (72), Chipotle (63) and Taco Bell (63).
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 350 kW charger in Manteca, CA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Lost Hills, CA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Lost Hills, 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 7h 05m of driving for 384 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 4:25 pm.