KINGSTON – The City of Kingston has received $73,637 from the Department of Environmental Conservation Municipal Zero-Emission Vehicle program for six Level 2 electric vehicle charging ports.
With the funding, the city will install three new EV charging stations with two ports each at Block Park, North Front Street, and at the city’s Building Safety Office on Garraghan Drive, said Mayor Steven Noble.
“For us, we want to continue to make it easier for people to have electric vehicles, to be able to allow folks to plug in when they are visiting our city sites and it helps promote the electrification we know we need to do and it aligns not only with the governor’s goals, but also with our new climate action plan that we just drafted,” he said.
Kingston already has a number of electric vehicle charging stations including in municipal lots: Cornell St, Dock Street, Lower Broadway, and in a city municipal lot at the Building Safety Department’s lot off of Garraghan Drive.
As of this month – January – the existing Kingston EV charging stations have saved 37,499 kg of greenhouse gas emissions, cumulatively.
