Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association
We are Knoxville’s leading non-profit dedicated to educating the public on the benefits of driving electric. Functioning as a regional chapter of the Electric Vehicle Association since 2010. Our monthly meetings and events are great places to come talk to daily EV drivers and have your questions answered as well as a community for EV enthusiasts. If you have never driven an EV we would love the opportunity to put you in the drivers seat at any of our meetings or various EVents.
We typically have a monthly meeting on the 2nd Saturday of every month at 11am. We currently don’t have a perfect meeting place so be sure to check the upcoming events calendar below to see where we are planning on meeting next.
To stay in touch with us and know what’s going on with EVs in East TN, please enter your email address in the subscription box on the right and you will be put on our event announcement mailing list. We will only email you about upcoming monthly meetings or big events.
We also have a very active discussion email list where any of our members can send out interesting EV news and topics. This is also where we conduct a majority of our event planning. If you would like to join our discussion list please click here to add your email to our discussion list. Be sure to acknowledge the verification email that is sent to you first so that you don’t miss any of our emails! This discussion list is ran by Freelist and you can set it up to get every email or a daily/weekly digest if you would like.
Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association
We are Knoxville’s leading non-profit dedicated to educating the public on the benefits of driving electric. Functioning as a regional chapter of the Electric Vehicle Association since 2010. Our monthly meetings and events are great places to come talk to daily EV drivers and have your questions answered as well as a community for EV enthusiasts. If you have never driven an EV we would love the opportunity to put you in the drivers seat at any of our meetings or various EVents.
We typically have a monthly meeting on the 2nd Saturday of every month at 11am. We currently don’t have a perfect meeting place so be sure to check the upcoming events calendar below to see where we are planning on meeting next.
To stay in touch with us and know what’s going on with EVs in East TN, please enter your email address in the subscription box on the right and you will be put on our event announcement mailing list. We will only email you about upcoming monthly meetings or big events.
We also have a very active discussion email list where any of our members can send out interesting EV news and topics. This is also where we conduct a majority of our event planning. If you would like to join our discussion list please click here to add your email to our discussion list. Be sure to acknowledge the verification email that is sent to you first so that you don’t miss any of our emails! This discussion list is ran by Freelist and you can set it up to get every email or a daily/weekly digest if you would like.
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Upcoming EVents
Here’s a quick snapshot of what we have going on in the next few months.
August Monthly Meeting
August 9th, 2025 11am
- Member Introductions, meet new members, anyone get a new EV?
- Report on Previous Month EVents
- Spring Cars and Coffee
- What are driving cycles?
- How EV range (and MPG) are calculated?
- The difference between EPA, WLTP, CLTC, and NEDC?
- Can we convert between them?
- Asian Festival EV display
- Sunday August 24th
- 10:30am-6:30pm
- 2 vehicles and maybe a bicycle?
- Knoxville Drive Electric Festival 2025
- September 27th, 10am-3pm
- Pellissippi Community College Hardin Valley
- Largest in the southeast!
- Ad placed in CityView Magazine, working on more
- Sign-up now to show your vehicle, we want a lot of EVs! We want to break last year’s record!
- https://driveelectricmonth.
org/event?eventid=4803
- Reminder EV Tax Credit Expires Sept 30th
- More EV News
- China Buick platform, 900 volt, 6C LFP battery, peak charging 650KW!
- Bill in Congress to require AM radio in vehicles, EV motors interfere with AM radio, that’s why AM isn’t in EVs.
- 93.5% tariff added to Chinese Graphite, which is heavily used in EV batteries.
- Ford announces “Model T moment” August 11th, for “breakthrough” EV and a new platform (rumors are a small electric pickup)
Meeting date and time: Saturday August 9th, 11:00am
Meeting location: Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (IAMM) Building located at 2641 Osprey Vista Way, Knoxville, TN 37920. Room 147 on the 1st floor.
2025 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival
September 27th, 2025 10am-3pm
Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley
The Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association (KEVA) and Drive Electric Tennessee (DET) are working to make the 2024 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival bigger and better. All activities — vehicles on display, ride and drives, vendors, etc. — will be held on the Pellissippi Community College Hardin Valley (Main) Campus. The 2024 Festival was the largest National Drive Electric Week event in the South East, with well over 100 EVs representing 40 different models. Let’s do it again in 2025! Come see electric cars, trucks, boats, bikes, buses, and motorcycles!
Come experience how fun EVs are to drive in out Test Drive area where we expect 15+ models to be available. This is your best chance of the year to see all the latest EV models in one place and talk to actual owners.
This is a festival, we will have food trucks and live music. We will update when we have the food trucks lined up. The live music stage will be powered by an F-150 Lightning ! We will have some of the best blues players in the area hit the stage. Featuring the School of Rock House Band at 10:00am, Tangled In Blues at 11:30am and Mighty Blue at 1:00pm!
Powering the music stage is a great example of how EVs can do V2L which stands for vehicle to load. Come learn how the latest EVs trucks can power your entire house for 7 days!! Both Ford and GM offer vehicle to home (V2H) integration for backup power.
We are family friendly with activities for kids and games for adults and kids.
Interested in EVs?
- Take an EV for a no strings attached test drive
- Come see our EV showcase with wide verity of models
- Talk with the owners who drive these cars everyday
- Learn how easy it is to own and use an EV
Already Own and EV?
- Please signup to show off your EV in the EV showcase
- Help us break last years record of EVs in the showcase
- Hangout and meet other interesting EV drivers and members of the public
- Please share this event with your friends and family that own EVs are might be interested
- E-bikes, One Wheels, any all electric transportation is welcome
- Goodies for those registered in the EV showcase and raffles.
See more details and register here to attend or to show off your EV!
85% of all EV charging is done at home
Most EV sold today comes with a 110 volt charger. Some EVs come with a 240 volt charger. We recommend people install a 240 volt charger in their garage since the latest EVs have larger battery packs this will minimize the time it takes to charge your EV. Most people already have access to 240v in their garage as this is the typical voltage for clothes dryers.
3 cents a mile
The typical efficiency of electric vehicles is 3 miles a KWH. The average cost of a KWH of electricity in Tennessee is about 10 cents. Simple math means you only pay 3.3 cents per mile. Even better news is that EV makers are pushing the efficiency to 4 miles or more per KWH thus making the cost even cheaper!
