The drive is 394.8 miles, about 7h 18m. Along it sit about 41 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 34 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 Memphis at 8:00 am, take a break in Winona at 10:10 am, stop for lunch in Jackson at 12:15 pm, take a break in Hammond at 3:15 pm and arrive in New Orleans around 4:40 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Memphis, TN | ||
| 10:10 am Break · mile 119 | Winona, MS Pilot Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 1 min |
| 12:15 pm Lunch · mile 211 | Jackson, MS Jackson Metro Junction (Jackson, MS) | 350 kW 6 stalls | 🧇 Waffle House 2 min, 🍔 Wendy's 3 min, 🍟 McDonald's 7 min |
| 12:55 pm | No fast charger for 74 mi from mile 211 to mile 285 | None within 5 mi of the route | |
| 3:15 pm Break · mile 336 | Hammond, LA Bill Hood Ford | 120 kW 4 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 5 min |
| ~4:40 pm | Arrive in New Orleans, LA |
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 23 stops at 150 kW or more and 9 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 74 miles, between mile 211 and mile 285.
In order along the route.
Leaving Memphis at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Jackson, MS around 12:15 pm, where Waffle House is a 2-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Winona, MS at 10:10 am, Taco Bell 1 min from the charger; Hammond, LA at 3:15 pm, McDonald's 5 min from the charger. In all, 34 of the roughly 41 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 41 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 395-mile route, 37 of them 50 kW or more. 23 charge at 150 kW or more, 9 are on the Tesla network, and 34 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
74 miles, between mile 211 (Jackson, MS) and mile 285 (McComb, MS), 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 Wendy's (near 13 chargers), McDonald's (12), Starbucks (11), Burger King (7), Taco Bell (7) and IHOP (6).
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 Winona, MS; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Winona, MS. 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 18m of driving for 395 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 4:40 pm.