The drive is 288.5 miles, about 5h 58m. Along it sit about 200 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 163 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 Saugerties at 10:10 am, stop for lunch in Saratoga Springs at 12:10 pm and arrive in Lake Placid around 3:00 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave New York, NY | ||
| 10:10 am Break · mile 106 | Saugerties, NY EVolve NY Saugerties | 350 kW 4 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 1 min, 🍟 McDonald's 2 min |
| 12:10 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 |
| ~3:00 pm | Arrive in Lake Placid, NY |
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 126 stops at 150 kW or more and 52 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 25 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 12:10 pm, where Burger King is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Saugerties, NY at 10:10 am has Starbucks 1 min from the charger. In all, 163 of the roughly 200 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 200 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 288-mile route, 192 of them 50 kW or more. 126 charge at 150 kW or more, 52 are on the Tesla network, and 163 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 25 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 112 chargers), McDonald's (67), Starbucks (67), Chipotle (58), Subway (50) and Burger King (40).
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 Saugerties, NY; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Saugerties, 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 5h 58m of driving for 288 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 3:00 pm.