The drive is 279.2 miles, about 5h 10m. Along it sit about 152 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 131 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 Tampa at 8:00 am, take a break in Fort Myers at 10:30 am, stop for lunch in Davie at 12:55 pm and arrive in Miami around 2:10 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Tampa, FL | ||
| 10:30 am Break · mile 134 | Fort Myers, FL Fort Myers BW | 400 kW 10 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 2 min, 👑 Burger King 5 min, 🍔 Wendy's 7 min |
| 12:55 pm Lunch · mile 247 | Davie, FL 7Charge - Davie | 180 kW 4 stalls | 🌶️ Chili's 2 min, 🍟 McDonald's 2 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 2 min |
| ~2:10 pm | Arrive in Miami, FL |
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 111 stops at 150 kW or more and 54 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 52 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 Tampa at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Davie, FL around 12:55 pm, where Chili's is a 2-minute walk from a 180 kW charger. The break in Fort Myers, FL at 10:30 am has Starbucks 2 min from the charger. In all, 131 of the roughly 152 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 152 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 279-mile route, 145 of them 50 kW or more. 111 charge at 150 kW or more, 54 are on the Tesla network, and 131 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
52 miles, between mile 163 (Naples, FL) and mile 215 (Ochopee, FL), 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 56 chargers), Starbucks (51), Dunkin' (42), Burger King (40), Subway (39) and Wendy's (35).
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 Fort Myers, FL; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Fort Myers, FL; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Fort Myers, FL. 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 10m of driving for 279 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 2:10 pm.