The drive is 191.2 miles, about 3h 30m. Along it sit about 40 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 33 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 Athens at 9:50 am and arrive in Birmingham around 11:50 am.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Nashville, TN | ||
| 9:50 am Break · mile 99 | Athens, AL Walmart 661 (Athens, AL) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍗 Zaxby's 2 min, 🍕 Pizza Hut 3 min, 🍦 Ice cream shop 4 min |
| ~11:50 am | Arrive in Birmingham, AL |
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 27 stops at 150 kW or more and 13 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 38 miles of the way.
In order along the route.
Leaving Nashville at 8:00 am, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's break in Athens, AL at 9:50 am: Zaxby's is a 2-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. In all, 33 of the roughly 40 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 40 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 191-mile route, 39 of them 50 kW or more. 27 charge at 150 kW or more, 13 are on the Tesla network, and 33 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
38 miles, between mile 61 (Cornersville, TN) and mile 99 (Athens, AL), 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 McDonald's (near 14 chargers), Wendy's (11), Starbucks (10), Chick-fil-A (9), Taco Bell (9) and Burger King (8).
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 Athens, AL; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Athens, AL. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 3h 30m of driving for 191 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 11:50 am.