The drive is 355.3 miles, about 6h 34m. Along it sit about 103 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 96 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 Dateland at 10:10 am, stop for lunch in El Centro at 11:50 am and arrive in San Diego around 2:35 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Phoenix, AZ | ||
| 10:10 am Break · mile 118 | Dateland, AZ Wellton Crude Parcel (Dateland, AZ) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍕 Pizza Hut 1 min |
| 11:50 am Lunch · mile 243 | El Centro, CA Bank of America El Centro (El Centro, CA) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 👑 Burger King 3 min, ☕ Starbucks 4 min, 🍟 McDonald's 4 min |
| ~2:35 pm | Arrive in San Diego, 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 250 kW, with 68 stops at 150 kW or more and 29 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 Phoenix at 8:00 am, lunch falls in El Centro, CA around 11:50 am, where Burger King is a 3-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Dateland, AZ at 10:10 am has Pizza Hut 1 min from the charger. In all, 96 of the roughly 103 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 103 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 355-mile route, 99 of them 50 kW or more. 68 charge at 150 kW or more, 29 are on the Tesla network, and 96 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
54 miles, between mile 185 (Yuma, AZ) and mile 239 (Heber, CA), 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 56 chargers), Subway (43), McDonald's (41), Jack in the Box (39), Taco Bell (28) and Carl's Jr. (25).
It depends on the car. The app's estimate for a 10–80% charge is about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Dateland, AZ; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Dateland, 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 34m of driving for 355 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes and 1 meal of about 40, you arrive around 2:35 pm.