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.
2024 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival
Update! Postponed due to hurricane Helene
October 12th, 10am -3pm
September 28th, 2024 10am-3pm
The Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association (KEVA), Pellissippi State Community College (PSCC), and Drive Electric Tennessee (DET) are working to make the 2024 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival bigger and better. All activities — vehicles on display, ride and drives, vendors, etc. — will be held on the Pellissippi Community College Hardin Valley (Main) Campus. The 2023 Festival was the largest National Drive Electric Week event in the South East, with well over 100 EVs representing 40 different models. Let’s do it again in 2024! Come see electric cars, trucks, boats, bikes, buses, and motorcycles!
Hey everyone, after a short postponement due to hurricane Helene, the 2024 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival will be this Saturday October 12th, from 10am-3pm, at Pellissippi campus in Hardin Valley. We know our neighbors in western North Carolina and upper east Tennessee were devastated by Helene and now we have Milton headed towards Florida. As always our event is free but we want to help by offering to collect donations to send to areas affected by the hurricanes. Two of our sponsors, Ted Russell Ford and Stinnett Collison have offered to help us gather and transport donations to affected areas. Feel free to drop off water, non-perishable food, cleaning supplies, batteries, and such at our collection point in the parking lot. We will make sure it gets to those in need.
We have had to make some small changes, like our new blues lineup for our live music and some different food trucks, but we will still have the largest Drive Electric Week event in the southeast! There will be close to 100 EVs on show by the owners and 45 different models. Plus we will have 15+ of the latest EV models for TEST DRIVE. Including the Cybertruck, Chevy Equinox, Cadillac Lyriq, and Hyundai Ioniq 5 and 6 to name a few that will be available for test drive! Come experience how fun EVs are to drive. This is your best chance of the year to see all the latest EV models in one place and talk to actual owners.
Attendees will have a chance to get multiple raffle tickets. We will be raffling off a Blink Charger, two $100 Visa Gift Cards, and various other goodies! We will also have Nissan shoulder bags while they last!
This is a festival, we will have food trucks and live music. Smith’s Endzone BBQ, Irvey’s Ice Cream Co., and Your Sugar Therapy Dessert Truck. The live music stage will be powered by an F-150 Lightning ! We will have some of the best blues players in the area hit the stage. Featuring Tangled In Blues from 11:00am – 12:30pm and Mighty Blue from 1:00pm – 2:30pm.
Powering the music stage is a great example of how EVs can do V2L which stands for vehicle to load. Come learn how the latest EVs trucks can power your entire house for 7 days!! Both Ford and GM offer vehicle to home (V2H) integration for backup power.
We will also be displaying how EVs can be used in camping since you have that big battery available! And we are family friendly with activities for kids. Kids get to put together a mini solar car to take home.
Interested in EVs?
- Take an EV for a no strings attached test drive
- Come see our EV showcase with wide verity of models
- Talk with the owners who drive these cars everyday
- Learn how easy it is to own and use an EV
Already Own and EV?
- Please signup to show off your EV in the EV showcase
- Help us break last years record of EVs in the showcase
- Hangout and meet other interesting EV drivers and members of the public
- Please share this event with your friends and family that own EVs are might be interested
- E-bikes, One Wheels, any all electric transportation is welcome
- Goodies for those registered in the EV showcase and raffles.
See more details and register here to attend or to show off your EV!
https://driveelectricweek.org/event?eventid=4180
November Monthly Meeting
November 9th, 2024, 11am-1pm
We will have our monthly meeting at UT Research Park at Cherokee Farms. We are working on topics and possible guess speakers now. As always you can come out to learn more about EVs and have your questions answered. We will update this posting once we get the details of the November meeting nailed down so check back as we get closer to the 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!
