The drive is 419.7 miles, about 7h 54m. Along it sit about 57 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 52 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 Phoenix at 8:00 am, take a break in Payson at 9:40 am, stop for lunch in Holbrook at 11:50 am, take a break in Gallup at 2:15 pm and arrive in Albuquerque around 5:15 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Phoenix, AZ | ||
| 9:40 am Break · mile 90 | Payson, AZ APS - Payson (Payson, AZ) | 350 kW 4 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 2 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 4 min, 🥪 Subway 5 min |
| 10:00 am | No fast charger for 97 mi from mile 90 to mile 187 | None within 5 mi of the route | |
| 11:50 am Lunch · mile 187 | Holbrook, AZ Holbrook, AZ | 300 kW 6 stalls | 🍕 Pizza Hut 1 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 1 min, ⭐ Carl's Jr. 2 min |
| 2:15 pm Break · mile 280 | Gallup, NM Gallup, NM Rechargery Relay - W Maloney Ave | 400 kW 10 stalls | 🪵 Cracker Barrel 3 min, 🍕 Pizza Hut 5 min, 👑 Burger King 6 min |
| ~5:15 pm | Arrive in Albuquerque, NM |
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 43 stops at 150 kW or more and 12 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, the longest stretch without one is 97 miles, between mile 90 and mile 187.
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 Phoenix at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Holbrook, AZ around 11:50 am, where Pizza Hut is a 1-minute walk from a 300 kW charger. The breaks: Payson, AZ at 9:40 am, Starbucks 2 min from the charger; Gallup, NM at 2:15 pm, Cracker Barrel 3 min from the charger. In all, 52 of the roughly 57 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 57 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 420-mile route, 57 of them 50 kW or more. 43 charge at 150 kW or more, 12 are on the Tesla network, and 52 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
97 miles, between mile 90 (Payson, AZ) and mile 187 (Holbrook, AZ), 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 Starbucks (near 27 chargers), Subway (23), McDonald's (20), Burger King (16), Chipotle (13) and Taco Bell (12).
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 Gallup, NM; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Gallup, NM; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Gallup, NM. 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 54m of driving for 420 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 5:15 pm.