The drive is 372.7 miles, about 6h 42m. Along it sit about 249 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 224 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 Quartzsite at 10:20 am, take a break in Rancho Mirage at 11:55 am, stop for lunch in San Bernardino at 1:20 pm and arrive in Los Angeles around 3:00 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Phoenix, AZ | ||
| 8:30 am | No fast charger for 98 mi from mile 30 to mile 128 | None within 5 mi of the route | |
| 10:20 am Break · mile 129 | Quartzsite, AZ Love's Travel #286 (Quartzsite, AZ) | 350 kW 4 stalls | ⭐ Carl's Jr. 5 minacross hwy, 👑 Burger King 5 minacross hwy, ☕ Starbucks 7 minacross hwy |
| 11:55 am Break · mile 256 | Rancho Mirage, CA Rancho Las Palmas Shopping Center | 350 kW 10 stalls | 🍔 In-N-Out 1 min, ☕ Starbucks 1 min |
| 1:20 pm Lunch · mile 317 | San Bernardino, CA Marshall Plaza | 350 kW 8 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 1 min, ☕ Dutch Bros 2 min, 🚗 Sonic 8 min |
| ~3:00 pm | Arrive in Los Angeles, CA |
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 125 kW, with 118 stops at 150 kW or more and 66 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 98 miles, between mile 30 and mile 128.
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 San Bernardino, CA around 1:20 pm, where McDonald's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Quartzsite, AZ at 10:20 am, Carl's Jr. 5 min from the charger (across the highway); Rancho Mirage, CA at 11:55 am, In-N-Out 1 min from the charger. In all, 224 of the roughly 249 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 249 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 373-mile route, 242 of them 50 kW or more. 118 charge at 150 kW or more, 66 are on the Tesla network, and 224 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
98 miles, between mile 30 (Buckeye, AZ) and mile 128 (Quartzsite, 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 123 chargers), McDonald's (91), Subway (66), Chipotle (62), Carl's Jr. (58) and Jack in the Box (56).
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 San Bernardino, CA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Quartzsite, AZ; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Quartzsite, AZ. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 6h 42m of driving for 373 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 3:00 pm.