The drive is 307.6 miles, about 5h 39m. Along it sit about 73 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 61 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 Paducah at 10:30 am, stop for lunch in Mount Vernon at 12:35 pm and arrive in St. Louis around 2:40 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Nashville, TN | ||
| 10:30 am Break · mile 138 | Paducah, KY Steak 'n Shake - Tesla Supercharger | 500 kW 8 stalls | 🪵 Cracker Barrel 1 min, 🍔 Wendy's 2 min, 🐔 Chick-fil-A 3 min |
| 12:35 pm Lunch · mile 232 | Mount Vernon, IL Pilot Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍗 Popeyes 2 min, 🥩 Arby's 5 min, 🍎 Applebee's 5 min |
| ~2:40 pm | Arrive in St. Louis, MO |
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 240 kW, with 42 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 58 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 Mount Vernon, IL around 12:35 pm, where Popeyes is a 2-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Paducah, KY at 10:30 am has Cracker Barrel 1 min from the charger. In all, 61 of the roughly 73 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 73 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 308-mile route, 73 of them 50 kW or more. 42 charge at 150 kW or more, 15 are on the Tesla network, and 61 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
58 miles, between mile 45 (Clarksville, TN) and mile 103 (Kuttawa, KY), 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 30 chargers), Starbucks (25), Taco Bell (23), Arby's (16), Panera Bread (16) and Subway (15).
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 500 kW charger in Paducah, KY; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Mount Vernon, IL; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Mount Vernon, IL. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 5h 39m of driving for 308 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 2:40 pm.