The drive is 491.1 miles, about 9h 07m. Along it sit about 109 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 91 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 Seattle at 8:00 am, take a break in Ellensburg at 9:55 am, take a break in Prosser at 11:50 am, stop for lunch in Stanfield at 1:15 pm, take a break in Baker City at 4:05 pm, stop for dinner in Ontario at 6:45 pm and arrive in Boise around 8:25 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Seattle, WA | ||
| 9:55 am Break · mile 105 | Ellensburg, WA Flying J | 350 kW 8 stalls | 🥩 Arby's 1 min, 🥪 Subway 2 minacross hwy, 🥞 IHOP 3 minacross hwy |
| 11:50 am Break · mile 190 | Prosser, WA Lep-Re-Kon Harvest Foods - Tesla Supercharger | 325 kW 8 stalls | 🍕 Domino's 4 min, 🥪 Subway 4 min, 👑 Burger King 5 min |
| 1:15 pm Lunch · mile 247 | Stanfield, OR Pilot Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🥪 Subway 1 min, 🍟 McDonald's 1 min |
| 4:05 pm Break · mile 362 | Baker City, OR Baker City, OR - Tesla Supercharger | 150 kW 8 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 3 min, 🍕 Pizza Hut 4 min |
| 6:45 pm Dinner · mile 435 | Ontario, OR Ontario, OR - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 8 stalls | 🍗 KFC 1 min, 🌯 Chipotle 1 min, ⭐ Carl's Jr. 1 min |
| ~8:25 pm | Arrive in Boise, ID |
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 160 kW, with 65 stops at 150 kW or more and 29 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 49 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 Seattle at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Stanfield, OR around 1:15 pm, where Subway is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger; dinner falls in Ontario, OR around 6:45 pm, where KFC is a 1-minute walk from a 250 kW charger. The breaks: Ellensburg, WA at 9:55 am, Arby's 1 min from the charger; Prosser, WA at 11:50 am, Domino's 4 min from the charger; Baker City, OR at 4:05 pm, McDonald's 3 min from the charger. In all, 91 of the roughly 109 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 109 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 491-mile route, 106 of them 50 kW or more. 65 charge at 150 kW or more, 29 are on the Tesla network, and 91 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
49 miles, between mile 190 (Prosser, WA) and mile 239 (Hermiston, OR), 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 61 chargers), Subway (56), McDonald's (42), Chipotle (25), Panda Express (22) and Burger King (21).
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 325 kW charger in Prosser, WA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 350 kW charger in Ellensburg, WA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Ellensburg, WA. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 9h 07m of driving for 491 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 8:25 pm.