Trumansburg installs two new EV charging stations

The village of Trumansburg has installed two new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in its latest effort to promote sustainability.

Construction of the two charging stations, located in the village office parking lot on Elm Street and at the Trumansburg Farmers Market on Corey Street, finished earlier this month. Each station offers a dual-port Level 3 charger, also known as a fast charger, and a dual-port Level 2 charger, which will initially cost $0.45/kwh and $0.19/kwh, respectively. 

The village was one of five municipalities in the Southern Tier to be awarded the 2022 state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Municipal Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure grant. Mayor Rordan Hart said that the two charging stations cost about $340,000, with the majority of funding coming from the grant and Assemblywoman Anna Kelles’ office.  

“We wanted to locate the chargers at a place that was publicly accessible, had lots of space but was also close enough to Main Street so that tourists and others could easily find it,” Hart said. “Although adoption of electric vehicles is maybe slower than some might like, there are a lot of people that have them, so being able to provide that service to folks is one of the many things that separates the village of Trumansburg from hundreds of other villages throughout upstate New York.”

Hart noted that there weren’t many charging stations available to village residents, leading many to use the Level-2 chargers by Ulysses Town Hall. Now, he said, the village has some of the few fast chargers in the area, which can charge an electric vehicle battery to 80% in just 20 minutes to 1 hour, something Level 2 chargers can do in 4 to 10 hours, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.     

Village Grove Apartments, the residential mixed-use, mixed-income subdivision of Crescent Way, which celebrated its grand opening in June, also provides EV charging stations for its residents.

“This is certainly our biggest [green energy] initiative from an infrastructure standpoint,” Hart said of the two new charging stations, noting that much of the village’s work in the “green space” has focused on upgrades to its water production and sewer system operations.  

In 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Houchl signed a law that requires all cars that are sold in the state to be electric by 2035. 

Hart said that another ongoing sustainability effort is making the village more walkable by building new sidewalks. 

The village received a $2.6 million grant last year through the federal Safe Routes to School program, which is designed to encourage students to walk and bike to school. The funding will go toward sidewalk construction on West Main Street from the Farmers Market to Seneca Road, as well as on Seneca Road from Compass MHP to Trumansburg Family Medicine. Hart said that this project is currently in the planning stages, and he hopes for construction to start later next year, or in spring 2027, when the entire Main Street corridor within the village will be walkable.  

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