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.
May Monthly Meeting
May 11th, 2024 11am-2pm
Hey everyone,
- Member introductions, meet new members, any get a new EV?
- Report on April DEEM events
- Blount County EV Experience
- Oak Ridge Farmers Market
- Spring Cars and Coffee
- Y-12 and ORNL
- Dogwood Arts Festival
- Guess Speaker – Cadillac Knoxville
- Learn about the Lyriq
- Future Cadillac EVs
- Tour of the Facilities
- Open Test Drive of the Lyriq
- Lunch after meeting
- Ultium Platform
- All the vehicles on the platform
- Design of the Platform and Batteries
- Tesla Firing the Entire Supercharger Team
- Why? What does this mean?
- Timing of other OEMs joining
- June Meeting 8th
- Trying a new location, TBA
- Working on Speaker/Theme
- 4th Annual EV’s in the Smokies
- July 13th, 11:00-6pm
- Fun hangout, camping theme, lawn games
- Working on Rivian coming, and electric Camper company
- Local magazine ad in the works
- Register here!
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- More EV News
Meeting date and time: Saturday May 11th, 11:00am
Meeting location: 10005 Parkside Dr, Knoxville, TN 37922. Meet in the main lobby first.
June Monthly Meeting
June 8th, 2024 11am
Our usually places to meet are booked for June so we are looking for venues and guest speakers to make June a great meeting. Stay tuned for more updates.
EV’s in the Smokies
July 13th, 2024 11am-6pm
Peaceful Side Social
7967 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Townsend, TN 37882
Last year at PSS we had over 50 EVs sign up & just under 50 show up. This is more laid back, bring your family & dog (bring a water bowl for Fido) & kinda hang out EVent. We will be doing Ride & Drives, if anyone is interested. If you just want to “show” your EV & visit that’s fine too! PSS has food, a brewery & an ice creamery. They will also have a large tent for us to eat at. And bathrooms. I am looking at more of an outdoorsy theme, maybe camping, so if your EV has a “camping mode” or if you have an after-market car mattress, etc, bring ’em on. Or if you’ve done a camping conversion & would like to show it off, come on down. Hammocks, frisbees, cornhole games, etc are welcome. Even some 10×10 tents too, although expect to share as it gets hot! I am working on a few things, just for this year, hence the outdoor/camping theme.
Register here to attend and learn more about EVs and get a test drive. Also register here if you already own an EV and want to participate by showing off your EV. This helps us keep track of how many people and EVs we expect to be there.
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!
