The drive is 283.5 miles, about 5h 06m. Along it sit about 38 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 31 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 St. Louis at 8:00 am, take a break in Cape Girardeau at 10:05 am, stop for lunch in Hayti at 11:45 am and arrive in Memphis around 2:05 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave St. Louis, MO | ||
| 10:05 am Break · mile 114 | Cape Girardeau, MO Schnucks Cape-Dc2 | 62 kW 1 stall | 🍔 Wendy's 2 min, 🥩 Arby's 3 min, ⭐ Hardee's 5 min |
| 11:45 am Lunch · mile 191 | Hayti, MO Pilot Travel Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍟 McDonald's 3 min |
| ~2:05 pm | Arrive in Memphis, TN |
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 21 stops at 150 kW or more and 5 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 46 miles of the way.
In order along the route.
Leaving St. Louis at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Hayti, MO around 11:45 am, where McDonald's is a 3-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Cape Girardeau, MO at 10:05 am has Wendy's 2 min from the charger. In all, 31 of the roughly 38 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 38 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 284-mile route, 38 of them 50 kW or more. 21 charge at 150 kW or more, 5 are on the Tesla network, and 31 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
46 miles, between mile 34 (Festus, MO) and mile 80 (Perryville, MO), 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 McDonald's (near 18 chargers), Taco Bell (15), Starbucks (13), Subway (9), Arby's (8) and Burger King (8).
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 Hayti, MO; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 350 kW charger in Hayti, MO. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 5h 06m of driving for 284 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes and 1 meal of about 40, you arrive around 2:05 pm.