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.
Dogwood Arts House and Garden Show 2025
Feb. 7th, 8th, and 9th
We are excited to be back at the 2025 Dogwood Arts House and Garden show! We are booth #7018 in the far back right corner. I have included the map and list of exhibitors below. If everything goes as anticipated on load-in day. we expect to be displaying a Chevy Blazer from Beaty Chevrolet and a Ford F-150 Lightning from Ted Russel Ford. This year we are excited to promote a lesser known feature of EVs. Each of these vehicles can do Vehicle-2-Home (V2H) where the EVs can power your house when the grid power goes down. Our booth exhibit will have information about each manufactures home power system. For example GM says their Silverado EV can run your house on reduced load for 21 days! The extended range battery F-150 Lightning should be able to do a similar amount of days as well! This feature has been extremely useful for a lot of people in the East Tennessee region that were affected by the intense storms that ravaged the area. Come see our exhibit and have all your EV questions answered, while also learning more about V2H.
Here are some links to the each manufacturer V2H systems.
No February Monthly Meeting!
We ask that you attend the House & Garden show to help us show appreciation and thanks for Dogwood having us in the show again this year.
Map of the House & Garden Show
2025 House & Garden Show Program_FINALMAP
Dogwood House & Garden Website
Friday: 10AM-6PM
Saturday: 10AM-6PM
Sunday: 10AM-4PM
Thanks to all the members who have volunteered to man our booth this year!
March Meeting
March 8th, 11am UT Research Park
Check back as we get closer, working on bringing in a new EV for the group to check out and other exciting things.
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!
