The drive is 565.8 miles, about 10h 32m. Along it sit about 262 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 220 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 Francisco at 8:00 am, take a break in Santa Nella at 10:00 am, stop for lunch in Lost Hills at 12:45 pm, take a break in Tehachapi at 3:00 pm, take a break in Barstow at 5:00 pm, stop for dinner in Baker at 6:30 pm and arrive in Las Vegas around 8:50 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave San Francisco, CA | ||
| 10:00 am Break · mile 109 | Santa Nella, CA TA CA-33, Santa Nella, CA | 400 kW 12 stalls | 🍗 Popeyes 1 min, 🥞 IHOP 1 min, 🍔 Wendy's 2 min |
| 12:45 pm Lunch · mile 238 | Lost Hills, CA Raju Countryside Market (Lost Hills, CA) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 1 min, 🍕 Pizza Hut 1 min, 🍔 Wendy's 1 min |
| 3:00 pm Break · mile 323 | Tehachapi, CA Flying J | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 8 minacross hwy, 🥪 Subway 8 minacross hwy |
| 5:00 pm Break · mile 412 | 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 |
| 6:30 pm Dinner · mile 473 | Baker, CA Ultra Gas and Mart (Baker, CA) | 350 kW 12 stalls | 🥪 Jersey Mike's 1 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 6 min |
| ~8:50 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 165 stops at 150 kW or more and 88 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 37 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 Francisco at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Lost Hills, CA around 12:45 pm, where Taco Bell is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger; dinner falls in Baker, CA around 6:30 pm, where Jersey Mike's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The breaks: Santa Nella, CA at 10:00 am, Popeyes 1 min from the charger; Tehachapi, CA at 3:00 pm, McDonald's 8 min from the charger (across the highway); Barstow, CA at 5:00 pm, Taco Bell 1 min from the charger. In all, 220 of the roughly 262 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 262 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 566-mile route, 254 of them 50 kW or more. 165 charge at 150 kW or more, 88 are on the Tesla network, and 220 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
37 miles, between mile 370 (Boron, CA) and mile 407 (Barstow, 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 129 chargers), Subway (104), McDonald's (86), Taco Bell (66), Chipotle (57) and Burger King (47).
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 Santa Nella, CA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Santa Nella, CA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Santa Nella, 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 10h 32m of driving for 566 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 3 breaks of about 20 minutes and 2 meals of about 40, you arrive around 8:50 pm.