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.
July Monthly Meeting
July 12th, 2025 11am
Hey everyone,
- Member Introductions, meet new members, anyone get a new EV?
- Report on Previous Month EVents
- 2025 Momentum Summit
- Harper Summer Cars and Coffee
- Sunday July 13th, 8am-11am, West Town Mall
- Show off your EV to the 10k people that come out
- Need to be parked with us by 6:30am
- Check website for more details
- New Tax/Spending Bill
- EV tax credit ends Sept 30th, 2025
- $10,000 loan interest deduction
- No federal EV registration fee!
- other stuff good/bad?
- Knoxville Drive Electric Festival 2025
- September 27th, 10-3pm
- Pellissippi Community College Hardin Valley
- Largest in the southeast!
- Advertising routes? Promotion ideas?
- Sign-up now to show your vehicle
- https://driveelectricmonth.
org/event?eventid=4803
- More EV News
- Tesla releases battery data showing 200,000 miles before the battery degrades to 80%
- ORNL announced battery breakthrough “1000 cycles, 10-minute charge”
- Honda pulling back future EV suv in favor of hybrid
- Rivina gets another $1 billion from Volkswagen
- What sub $17k EV should our member that’s moving to the Netherlands buy?
Meeting date and time: Saturday July 12th, 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.
Summer Cars and Coffee West Town Mall
July 13th, 2025, 8am-11am (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!
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
Picture from Fall 2023 Cars and Coffee
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!
