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.
March Meeting
March 8th, 11am UT Research Park
We will be meeting again this month on Saturday the 8th at 11am at UT Research Park. We have been working on getting a new EV to show up at our meetings for us all to check out. As we have learned not to over promise, since some of these EVs can be sold the day before they are supposed to be brought to our meeting. We are still working on possibly getting something exciting to show up at our meeting for us all to check out. Aside from a featured EV, we will also be talking about our April Drive Electric Earth Month plans. Come on out and join us as we discuss all things EV and answer your EV questions.
Meeting Agenda
- Member introductions, meet new members, any get a new EV?
- Report on previous month
- 2025 House and Garden Show
- 2 Vehicles and V2H exhibit
- 5,000 in attendance over 3 days
- Potential Featured EV
- We will update our Facebook page and website if we get confirmation
- April Drive Electric Earth Month
- Throughout the month of April
- Events will be loaded on driveelectricearthmonth.org
- Harper Cars and Coffee Sunday April 6th, 8am-11am
- Looking into a East Knoxville Ride and Drive Event
- Looking into a Clinton, TN EV showcase
- ORNL Earth Day has been canceled
- Awaiting confirmation on Y-12 EV Showcase
- Checking on Dogwood Arts Festival exhibit
- Let’s discuss more ideas for what we can do in April
- More EV News
- Mercedes-Benz says it will start using AI to design its next vehicles
- Possible tariffs of 25% on autos on March 4th (but always changing)
- Knoxville Volvo got their demo unit of the EX30 in
- Stellantis moves up RAM 1500 RAMCHARGER to first half 2025
- and more news
Meeting date and time: Saturday March 8th, 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.
April Drive Electric Earth Month Events
Whole Month of April
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!
