The drive is 330.3 miles, about 6h 07m. Along it sit about 227 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 194 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 San Diego at 8:00 am, take a break in Riverside at 9:40 am, take a break in Barstow at 11:35 am, stop for lunch in Baker at 1:05 pm and arrive in Las Vegas around 3:25 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave San Diego, CA | ||
| 9:40 am Break · mile 90 | Riverside, CA Riverside, CA Rechargery Relay - Van Buren Boulevard | 400 kW 12 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 4 min, 🍗 KFC 7 min, 🥪 Subway 8 min |
| 11:35 am Break · mile 176 | Barstow, CA Barstow, CA - 1503 East Main Street - Tesla Supercharger | 325 kW 120 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 1 min, ⭐ Carl's Jr. 1 min, ☕ Starbucks 2 min |
| 1:05 pm Lunch · mile 238 | Baker, CA Ultra Gas and Mart (Baker, CA) | 350 kW 12 stalls | 🥪 Jersey Mike's 1 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 6 min |
| ~3:25 pm | Arrive in Las Vegas, NV |
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 143 stops at 150 kW or more and 74 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 24 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 San Diego at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Baker, CA around 1:05 pm, where Jersey Mike's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Riverside, CA at 9:40 am, Taco Bell 4 min from the charger; Barstow, CA at 11:35 am, Taco Bell 1 min from the charger. In all, 194 of the roughly 227 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 227 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 330-mile route, 214 of them 50 kW or more. 143 charge at 150 kW or more, 74 are on the Tesla network, and 194 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 24 miles: there is a DC fast charger within 5 miles of the route at least that often.
Counting the fast chargers of 50 kW or more on the route, the chains most often within a 10-minute walk are Starbucks (near 122 chargers), McDonald's (77), Subway (73), Jack in the Box (59), Carl's Jr. (55) and Panda Express (53).
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 Riverside, CA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Riverside, CA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Riverside, CA. 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 07m of driving for 330 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 3:25 pm.