The drive is 245.7 miles, about 4h 37m. Along it sit about 95 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 80 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 Nashville at 8:00 am, take a break in Monteagle at 9:40 am, stop for lunch in Dalton at 12:25 pm and arrive in Atlanta around 2:35 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Nashville, TN | ||
| 9:40 am Break · mile 88 | Monteagle, TN Pilot Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 1 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 1 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 3 min |
| 12:25 pm Lunch · mile 165 | Dalton, GA ONE9 Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🥩 Arby's 1 min, 🧇 Waffle House 1 min, 🍔 Wendy's 3 min |
| ~2:35 pm | Arrive in Atlanta, GA |
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 250 kW, with 60 stops at 150 kW or more and 31 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 32 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 Nashville at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Dalton, GA around 12:25 pm, where Arby's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Monteagle, TN at 9:40 am has Wendy's 1 min from the charger. In all, 80 of the roughly 95 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 95 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 246-mile route, 90 of them 50 kW or more. 60 charge at 150 kW or more, 31 are on the Tesla network, and 80 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
32 miles, between mile 32 (Murfreesboro, TN) and mile 64 (Manchester, TN), 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 Waffle House (near 27 chargers), Starbucks (26), McDonald's (25), Wendy's (22), Subway (21) and Burger King (20).
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 Monteagle, TN; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Monteagle, TN. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 4h 37m of driving for 246 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 2:35 pm.