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.
Spring Harper Cars and Coffee at West Town Mall
April 12th, 2026, 8am-11am (But be there by 6:30am)
Harper Cars and Coffee at West Town Mall
We like to show everyone that attends that there is an alternative to all the gasoline vehicles on display so we try to have a good showing of EVs. Attendance can range from 10,000 to 15,000 people!
Let’s Fill up a couple rows with EVs! I will have save two rows of parking, so come join us!
This April event gets to be a part of Drive Electric Earth Month so we would love for you register to attend to help our event numbers and let people know what vehicles will be there. It will also help us get an accurate count of spaces to save.
https://driveelectricearthmonth.org/event?eventid=5212
We will be located near the Dillard’s entrance that faces Kingston Pike, look for the green feather flag. The setup team usually gets there early at 4:45am to reserve our rows of parking (Thank you setup team!). However, we advise anyone that wants to join us in our EV section to get there at or before 6:30 am as it becomes a mad house traffic jam after that time. It’s hard to get into our area after 8am. We know its early to come hang out and check out all these crazy vehicles, but there is usually free coffee and sometimes there’s even donuts. We suggest you enter the Montvue rd entrance as its easiest to get to our location. Just enter the Mall parking and turn left and follow it around to the Dillard’s entrance that faces Kingston Pike. Look for our green feather flag. However, they have now opened up the other entrances and sometimes those can be faster depending on the how backed up the traffic is, just find your way around to our Dillard’s location.
Where: 7600 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919
When: By 6:30am you need to be parked near us, show goes from 8am-11am.
Need any more information please email Knoxville.EV.club@gmail.com
Aerial picture from Fall 2023 Cars and Coffee, other pictures are from the Fall 2025 event.
April Drive Electric Earth Month Events
The Whole Month of April
No April monthly meeting since we are hosting so many DEEM events in the area during April.
Please check out the list of events near you at:
https://driveelectricearthmonth.org/
Currently Scheduled Events
- Knoxville Zoo Wildwheels event
- April 11th 9-2pm
- Knoxville Zoo
- Harper Cars and Coffee
- April 12th 6:30am-11am
- West Town Mall
- Paws for the Cause
- April 25th 10am-3pm
- Clinton, TN
- Smokies Baseball Stadium
- April 25th, 4:30-7:30pm
- 2 EVs at the main entrance
- More to be confirmed shortly, check back!
May Monthly Meeting
May 9th, 2026, 11am-1pm
Stay tuned as we work on meeting location and possible speakers/topics. Check back as we get closer to the meeting date.
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!
