The drive is 370.6 miles, about 7h 22m. Along it sit about 170 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 147 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 Allentown at 9:50 am, take a break in Carlisle at 12:00 pm, stop for lunch in Breezewood at 1:35 pm and arrive in Pittsburgh around 4:40 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave New York, NY | ||
| 9:50 am Break · mile 93 | Allentown, PA Home Depot Trexlertown | 350 kW 6 stalls | 🍦 Ice cream shop 4 min, 🐕 Raising Cane's 8 min, 🤠 Texas Roadhouse 9 min |
| 12:00 pm Break · mile 183 | Carlisle, PA Flying J | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍳 Denny's 1 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 2 min, 🧇 Waffle House 9 minacross hwy |
| 1:35 pm Lunch · mile 248 | Breezewood, PA Pizza Hut - Breezewood | 400 kW 4 stalls | 🍕 Pizza Hut 1 min, ☕ Starbucks 1 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 1 min |
| ~4:40 pm | Arrive in Pittsburgh, PA |
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 106 stops at 150 kW or more and 51 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 33 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 Breezewood, PA around 1:35 pm, where Pizza Hut is a 1-minute walk from a 400 kW charger. The breaks: Allentown, PA at 9:50 am, Ice cream shop 4 min from the charger; Carlisle, PA at 12:00 pm, Denny's 1 min from the charger. In all, 147 of the roughly 170 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 170 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 371-mile route, 165 of them 50 kW or more. 106 charge at 150 kW or more, 51 are on the Tesla network, and 147 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
33 miles, between mile 266 (Bedford, PA) and mile 299 (Somerset, PA), 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 82 chargers), McDonald's (69), Starbucks (64), Burger King (41), Subway (35) and Wendy's (35).
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 350 kW charger in Allentown, PA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Breezewood, PA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Breezewood, 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 7h 22m of driving for 371 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 4:40 pm.