The drive is 107.9 miles, about 2h 08m. Along it sit about 91 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 83 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 and arrive in Richmond around 10:10 am: the drive is short enough that the plan has no stop. In the app, a later leaving time plans a meal on the way when one falls during the drive.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Washington, DC | ||
| ~10:10 am | Arrive in Richmond, VA |
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 56 stops at 150 kW or more and 30 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 18 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 you arrive around 10:10 am, too soon for a meal stop. About halfway, Fredericksburg, VA (mile 52) has Chick-fil-A a 1-minute walk from a 400 kW charger. In all, 83 of the roughly 91 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 91 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 108-mile route, 88 of them 50 kW or more. 56 charge at 150 kW or more, 30 are on the Tesla network, and 83 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 18 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 Starbucks (near 45 chargers), Chipotle (40), McDonald's (40), Subway (37), Dunkin' (34) and Chick-fil-A (27).
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 Fredericksburg, VA; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Fredericksburg, VA; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Fredericksburg, 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 2h 08m of driving for 108 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am without a stop, you arrive around 10:10 am.