The drive is 217.1 miles, about 4h 18m. Along it sit about 224 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 200 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 Loomis at 10:10 am and arrive in Reno around 12:35 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave San Francisco, CA | ||
| 10:10 am Break · mile 109 | Loomis, CA Costco Loomis (Loomis, CA) | 350 kW 14 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 1 min, ⭐ Carl's Jr. 3 min, 🥖 Panera Bread 4 min |
| ~12:35 pm | Arrive in Reno, 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 139 stops at 150 kW or more and 65 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 30 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, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's break in Loomis, CA at 10:10 am: McDonald's is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. In all, 200 of the roughly 224 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 224 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 217-mile route, 220 of them 50 kW or more. 139 charge at 150 kW or more, 65 are on the Tesla network, and 200 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
30 miles, between mile 134 (Colfax, CA) and mile 164 (Soda Springs, 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 140 chargers), Subway (83), McDonald's (75), Chipotle (62), Taco Bell (61) and Peet's Coffee (56).
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 Loomis, CA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Loomis, 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 4h 18m of driving for 217 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 12:35 pm.