BPU General Manager Dave Leathers, left, and Board Chair Greg Anderson, right, present a rebate check to Ed Shults III, owner of Ed Shults Ford. The three are flanked on the far left by BPU Transmission and Distribution Supervisor Tye Flurie and President of PPR Energy Solutions Mike Prinzi, who worked together to install the equipment. To the right of Anderson and Shults are BPU Deputy General Manager – Electric Kris Sellstrom, Jamestown City Mayor Kimberly Ecklund and Ed Shults Ford General Manager Rich Shelley.

Ed Shults III, president of Ed Shults Ford, Jamestown, was recently presented with a $25,000 rebate check for installing a Level 3 fast EV charger at the Ford dealership on Washington Street.

Mayor Kimberly Ecklund, the president of the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities board, BPU Board Chairman Greg Anderson, BPU General Manager David L. Leathers, and staff were on hand for the presentation.

The BPU’s EV Charger Equipment Rebate program, which has now ended, funded the rebate. The charger is available to the dealer’s customers and the public.

“The Shults Auto Group is proud to lead the Southern Tier in EV infrastructure with more than $500,000 of private investment to date,” said Ed Shults III. “And with our great partners at the Jamestown BPU providing clean, reliable and economical service, we look forward to continuing to provide our no and low-cost, high-speed charging network to our current and future customers, employees, and the traveling public.”