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Is it cheaper to fly or drive a Tesla from Dallas, TX to Chicago, IL?
Book the flightYou keep
$203
In the car
16h 16m
Stress
About even
Car 54 · Flight 61
5h 28m by air, only 2h 12m of it flying. 1 in 5 run late.
How this was priced
Dallas, TX to Chicago, IL is 927 mi by road — 16h 16m of driving and 5 Supercharger stops — against 5h 28m door to door by air. Flying is the better call: the flight costs $605 against $402 to drive, and it saves 10h 48m of travel. On the 0-100 stress scale the drive scores 54 and the flight 61.
Priced with fast charging at $0.50 per kWh and 3.7 miles per kWh, airfare from a $95 base plus $0.13 a mile per person, one $35 bag and a $30 ride at each end. Airfare is modelled from flight distance, not a live fare quote, so treat it as a typical fare rather than today's price. Rates last reviewed 14 September 2026; this trip last priced 17 October 2026.
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- Distance and drive time come from live road routing, not straight lines.
- Every rate used is listed on Cost analysis and sourced on Sources.
- This trip as raw data: dallas-tx-to-chicago-il.json
- Last recalculated 2026-10-17 · checked 1×. Costs are modelled estimates, not quotes.