The drive is 254.1 miles, about 5h 39m. Along it sit about 207 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 184 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 North Haven at 9:45 am, stop for lunch in Providence at 12:20 pm and arrive in Hyannis around 2:40 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave New York, NY | ||
| 9:45 am Break · mile 79 | North Haven, CT North Haven | 400 kW 10 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 4 min, 🍔 Wendy's 7 min, 🦬 Buffalo Wild Wings 7 min |
| 12:20 pm Lunch · mile 179 | Providence, RI Walmart 3301 (Providence, RI) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 1 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 7 minacross hwy, 🥪 Jersey Mike's 9 minacross hwy |
| ~2:40 pm | Arrive in Hyannis, MA |
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 150 kW, with 112 stops at 150 kW or more and 56 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 13 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 Providence, RI around 12:20 pm, where Wendy's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in North Haven, CT at 9:45 am has Starbucks 4 min from the charger. In all, 184 of the roughly 207 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 207 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 254-mile route, 204 of them 50 kW or more. 112 charge at 150 kW or more, 56 are on the Tesla network, and 184 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 13 miles: there is a DC fast charger within 5 miles of the route at least that often.
Counting the fast chargers of 50 kW or more on the route, the chains most often within a 10-minute walk are Dunkin' (near 146 chargers), McDonald's (97), Starbucks (80), Subway (63), Chipotle (50) and Popeyes (42).
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 400 kW charger in North Haven, CT; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in North Haven, CT; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in North Haven, CT. 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 254 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.