The drive is 261.0 miles, about 5h 15m. Along it sit about 123 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 112 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 Ashland at 9:50 am, stop for lunch in Henderson at 12:45 pm and arrive in Raleigh around 2:15 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Washington, DC | ||
| 9:50 am Break · mile 93 | Ashland, VA TA Lewistown Road, Ashland, VA | 400 kW 12 stalls | 🍕 Pizza Hut 1 min, 🍗 Popeyes 1 min, ☕ Starbucks 7 minacross hwy |
| 12:45 pm Lunch · mile 219 | Henderson, NC Walmart 2256 (Henderson, NC) | 350 kW 4 stalls | 🍕 Pizza Hut 1 min, 🌮 Taco Bell 3 min, 🐔 Chick-fil-A 5 min |
| ~2:15 pm | Arrive in Raleigh, NC |
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 81 stops at 150 kW or more and 44 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 53 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 Henderson, NC around 12:45 pm, where Pizza Hut is a 1-minute walk from a 350 kW charger. The break in Ashland, VA at 9:50 am has Pizza Hut 1 min from the charger. In all, 112 of the roughly 123 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 123 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 261-mile route, 119 of them 50 kW or more. 81 charge at 150 kW or more, 44 are on the Tesla network, and 112 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
53 miles, between mile 131 (Petersburg, VA) and mile 184 (South Hill, VA), 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 55 chargers), McDonald's (51), Subway (47), Chipotle (44), Dunkin' (38) and Chick-fil-A (36).
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 Ashland, VA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Ashland, VA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Ashland, VA. 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 15m of driving for 261 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 2:15 pm.