The drive is 225.5 miles, about 4h 49m. Along it sit about 317 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 262 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 Washington at 8:00 am, take a break in Newark at 10:05 am, stop for lunch in Perth Amboy at 12:35 pm and arrive in New York around 1:50 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Washington, DC | ||
| 10:05 am Break · mile 98 | Newark, DE Biden Center | 400 kW 12 stalls | ☕ Starbucks 1 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 1 min, 🍦 Ice cream shop 2 min |
| 12:35 pm Lunch · mile 201 | Perth Amboy, NJ Convery Plaza Shopping Center | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🌮 Taco Bell 2 min, 🍩 Dunkin' 3 min, 🍕 Domino's 4 min |
| ~1:50 pm | Arrive in New York, NY |
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 200 kW, with 197 stops at 150 kW or more and 116 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 10 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 Washington at 8:00 am, lunch falls in Perth Amboy, NJ around 12:35 pm, where Taco Bell is a 2-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Newark, DE at 10:05 am has Starbucks 1 min from the charger. In all, 262 of the roughly 317 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 317 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 225-mile route, 309 of them 50 kW or more. 197 charge at 150 kW or more, 116 are on the Tesla network, and 262 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 10 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 Dunkin' (near 155 chargers), McDonald's (119), Starbucks (117), Chipotle (80), Subway (66) and Burger King (63).
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 Newark, DE; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Newark, DE; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Newark, DE. 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 49m of driving for 225 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 1:50 pm.