The drive is 308.3 miles, about 6h 44m. Along it sit about 213 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 176 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 New York at 8:00 am, take a break in Plattekill at 9:30 am, stop for lunch in Saratoga Springs at 12:20 pm, take a break in Vergennes at 3:15 pm and arrive in Burlington around 4:05 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave New York, NY | ||
| 9:30 am Break · mile 70 | Plattekill, NY Plattekill Service Area | 350 kW 6 stalls | 👑 Burger King 1 min, 🐔 Chick-fil-A 1 min, ☕ Starbucks 1 min |
| 12:20 pm Lunch · mile 185 | Saratoga Springs, NY Carrols Burger King #2086 (Saratoga Springs, NY) | 350 kW 6 stalls | 👑 Burger King 1 min, 🐦 Red Robin 1 min, 🍗 KFC 2 min |
| 3:15 pm Break · mile 285 | Vergennes, VT Norwich EV - Vergennes Charging Center | 180 kW 8 stalls | 🍦 Ice cream shop 1 min |
| ~4:05 pm | Arrive in Burlington, VT |
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 126 stops at 150 kW or more and 53 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 41 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 New York at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Saratoga Springs, NY around 12:20 pm, where Burger King is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Plattekill, NY at 9:30 am, Burger King 1 min from the charger; Vergennes, VT at 3:15 pm, Ice cream shop 1 min from the charger. In all, 176 of the roughly 213 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 213 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 308-mile route, 205 of them 50 kW or more. 126 charge at 150 kW or more, 53 are on the Tesla network, and 176 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
41 miles, between mile 244 (Schroon Lake, NY) and mile 285 (Vergennes, VT), 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 Dunkin' (near 122 chargers), Starbucks (71), McDonald's (70), Chipotle (61), Subway (52) and Burger King (40).
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 250 kW charger in Plattekill, NY; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Plattekill, NY; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Plattekill, NY. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 6h 44m of driving for 308 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 4:05 pm.