The drive is 487.8 miles, about 10h 05m. Along it sit about 422 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 357 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 Newark at 10:40 am, stop for lunch in Columbia at 12:25 pm, take a break in Fredericksburg at 2:45 pm, take a break in Disputanta at 4:40 pm, stop for dinner in Henderson at 6:50 pm and arrive in Raleigh around 8:25 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave New York, NY | ||
| 10:40 am Break · mile 128 | Newark, DE Biden Center | 400 kW 12 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 1 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 1 min, 🍦 Ice cream shop 2 min |
| 12:25 pm Lunch · mile 200 | Columbia, MD Walmart 5228 (Columbia, MD) | 350 kW 10 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 1 min, 🐔 Chick-fil-A 2 min, 🍔 Wendy's 2 min |
| 2:45 pm Break · mile 278 | Fredericksburg, VA Spotsylvania Town Center | 400 kW 10 stalls | 🐔 Chick-fil-A 1 min, 🍦 Ice cream shop 3 min, 👑 Burger King 4 min |
| 4:40 pm Break · mile 357 | Disputanta, VA Pilot Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍔 Wendy's 1 min, ⭐ Hardee's 2 min, 🥪 Subway 2 minacross hwy |
| 6:50 pm Dinner · mile 445 | Henderson, NC Walmart 2256 (Henderson, NC) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍕 Pizza Hut 1 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 3 min, 🐔 Chick-fil-A 5 min |
| ~8:25 pm | Arrive in Raleigh, NC |
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 250 kW, with 268 stops at 150 kW or more and 155 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 54 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 Columbia, MD around 12:25 pm, where McDonald's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger; dinner falls in Henderson, NC around 6:50 pm, where Pizza Hut is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Newark, DE at 10:40 am, Starbucks 1 min from the charger; Fredericksburg, VA at 2:45 pm, Chick-fil-A 1 min from the charger; Disputanta, VA at 4:40 pm, Wendy's 1 min from the charger. In all, 357 of the roughly 422 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 422 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 488-mile route, 410 of them 50 kW or more. 268 charge at 150 kW or more, 155 are on the Tesla network, and 357 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
54 miles, between mile 357 (Petersburg, VA) and mile 411 (South Hill, VA), 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 185 chargers), McDonald's (163), Starbucks (160), Chipotle (115), Subway (103) and Burger King (86).
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 Newark, DE; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Newark, DE; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Newark, DE. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 10h 05m of driving for 488 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 3 breaks of about 20 minutes and 2 meals of about 40, you arrive around 8:25 pm.