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Hop in the IONIQ 5, we’re heading for the Badlands…
Continuing our mega summer road trip across the United States from where we left off east of Indianapolis, we set our sights on South Dakota to hit our first (and the best-named) National Park: Badlands.
Over two drive days we knock out another 1,100 miles, with an overnight stop at Ledges State Park in central Iowa and our boondocking debut at Sage Creek camp area in the Badlands itself.
As well as getting into the details of how we balance V2L camp use with a portable power bank from VTOMAN (review here: https://youtu.be/o8VgTNFdoHg), we’re also pleasantly surprised by a couple of Ford Charge locations on the way to both camps. The J+ Booster 2 portable power cord then gets us to 100% in the middle of a forest and we move on to the (almost) DCFC desert of I-80 in South Dakota.
Chapters:
0:00 – Start
0:22 – Intro in Indianapolis
1:01 – Electrify America at Meijer 131 (Indiana)
3:21 – Electrify America at Meijer 146 (Champaign, IL)
5:56 – Ford Charge FTW (Kewanee, IL)
7:48 – Beer of the Trip
9:06 – Electrify America at Casey’s (Williamsburg, IA)
12:12 – Ledges State Park (Madrid, IA) + Drive Stats
14:26 – J+ Booster 2 Tests (TT-30 and NEMA 14-50)
17:57 – Drive Day 2 from 100%
19:49 – Electrify America at Fareway (Sioux City, IA)
23:02 – Entering South Dakota
23:30 – The World’s *Only* Corn Palace! (Mitchell, SD)
24:32 – Ford Charge Impresses Again (Mitchell, SD)
27:11 – Electrify America (Chamberlain, SD)
30:47 – Arriving Wall, SD
31:40 – BEV vs. Bison
32:14 – Boondocking at Sage Creek Camp
Product Links:
J+ Booster 2 Portable EVSE:
https://refer.link/g5Pw
VTOMAN Flashspeed 1500 Power Bank:
VTOMAN FlashSpeed 1500 Power Station
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