The drive is 219.3 miles, about 4h 13m. Along it sit about 48 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 37 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, stop for lunch in Knoxville at 12:35 pm and arrive in Gatlinburg around 1:50 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Nashville, TN | ||
| 12:35 pm Lunch · mile 188 | Knoxville, TN Pilot Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 👑 Burger King 1 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 2 min, 🍗 KFC 3 min |
| ~1:50 pm | Arrive in Gatlinburg, TN |
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 38 stops at 150 kW or more and 15 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 33 miles of the way.
In order along the route.
Leaving Nashville at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Knoxville, TN around 12:35 pm, where Burger King is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. In all, 37 of the roughly 48 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 48 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 219-mile route, 48 of them 50 kW or more. 38 charge at 150 kW or more, 15 are on the Tesla network, and 37 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
33 miles, between mile 77 (Cookeville, TN) and mile 110 (Crossville, 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 McDonald's (near 19 chargers), Subway (17), Taco Bell (16), Wendy's (14), Burger King (12) and Starbucks (12).
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 Knoxville, TN; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Knoxville, 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 13m of driving for 219 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 meal of about 40, you arrive around 1:50 pm.