The drive is 320.4 miles, about 5h 36m. 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 Salt Lake City at 8:00 am, take a break in Pocatello at 10:50 am, stop for lunch in Rigby at 12:20 pm and arrive in West Yellowstone around 2:35 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Salt Lake City, UT | ||
| 9:15 am | No fast charger for 68 mi from mile 74 to mile 142 | None within 5 mi of the route | |
| 10:50 am Break · mile 165 | Pocatello, ID Hirning Buick GMC | 50 kW 2 stalls | 🍦 Ice cream shop 2 min, 🍗 KFC 4 min, 🥪 Subway 4 min |
| 12:20 pm Lunch · mile 228 | Rigby, ID Tadd Jenkins Chevrolet | 60 kW 2 stalls | 🥩 Arby's 2 min, 🍔 Wendy's 3 min, 🍕 Pizza Hut 5 min |
| ~2:35 pm | Arrive in West Yellowstone, MT |
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 180 kW, with 35 stops at 150 kW or more and 11 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 68 miles, between mile 74 and mile 142.
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 Salt Lake City at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Rigby, ID around 12:20 pm, where Arby's is a 2-minute walk from a 60 kW charger. The break in Pocatello, ID at 10:50 am has Ice cream shop 2 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 320-mile route, 56 of them 50 kW or more. 35 charge at 150 kW or more, 11 are on the Tesla network, and 52 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
68 miles, between mile 74 (Tremonton, UT) and mile 142 (Mccammon, ID), 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 McDonald's (near 31 chargers), Subway (28), Wendy's (20), Burger King (19), Domino's (15) and Starbucks (15).
It depends on the car. The app's estimate for a 10–80% charge is about 1h 52m for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 60 kW charger in Rigby, ID; about 1h 38m for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 60 kW charger in Rigby, ID. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 5h 36m of driving for 320 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.