The drive is 388.8 miles, about 8h 16m. Along it sit about 171 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 140 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 Scranton at 10:30 am, stop for lunch in Binghamton at 12:05 pm, take a break in Clifton Springs at 3:00 pm and arrive in Niagara Falls around 5:35 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave New York, NY | ||
| 10:30 am Break · mile 120 | Scranton, PA Scranton, PA Rechargery @ Sheetz - Scranton Carbondale Hwy | 400 kW 10 stalls | 👑 Burger King 2 min, 🥪 Jersey Mike's 2 min, 🍳 Denny's 5 min |
| 12:05 pm Lunch · mile 175 | Binghamton, NY EVolve NY Binghamton | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍕 Domino's 1 min, 🍦 Ice cream shop 1 min, 🥪 Subway 2 min |
| 3:00 pm Break · mile 284 | Clifton Springs, NY Applegreen Electric - Clifton Springs Travel Plaza | 350 kW 6 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 1 min, 👑 Burger King 1 min, 🐔 Chick-fil-A 1 min |
| ~5:35 pm | Arrive in Niagara Falls, 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 180 kW, with 112 stops at 150 kW or more and 45 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 29 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 Binghamton, NY around 12:05 pm, where Domino's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Scranton, PA at 10:30 am, Burger King 2 min from the charger; Clifton Springs, NY at 3:00 pm, Starbucks 1 min from the charger. In all, 140 of the roughly 171 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 171 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 389-mile route, 169 of them 50 kW or more. 112 charge at 150 kW or more, 45 are on the Tesla network, and 140 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 29 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 83 chargers), Starbucks (62), McDonald's (56), Burger King (42), Subway (39) and Chipotle (32).
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 Scranton, PA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Scranton, PA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Scranton, PA. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 8h 16m of driving for 389 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 5:35 pm.