The drive is 113.8 miles, about 2h 22m. Along it sit about 227 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 192 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 and arrive in Monterey around 10:20 am: the drive is short enough that the plan has no stop. In the app, a later leaving time plans a meal on the way when one falls during the drive.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave San Francisco, CA | ||
| ~10:20 am | Arrive in Monterey, 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 150 kW, with 117 stops at 150 kW or more and 61 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 17 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 you arrive around 10:20 am, too soon for a meal stop. About halfway, Campbell, CA (mile 50) has Panera Bread a 1-minute walk from a 500 kW charger. In all, 192 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 114-mile route, 218 of them 50 kW or more. 117 charge at 150 kW or more, 61 are on the Tesla network, and 192 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 17 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 146 chargers), Subway (73), Peet's Coffee (59), Chipotle (57), McDonald's (56) and Panda Express (41).
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 500 kW charger in Campbell, CA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 500 kW charger in Campbell, CA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 500 kW charger in Campbell, 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 2h 22m of driving for 114 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am without a stop, you arrive around 10:20 am.