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.
Wave of used EVs
A large amount of EVs were leased in 2022-2025 to take advantage of the EV tax credits. Those leases were typically for 2 to 3 years. Which will be coming due this year and next. At the end of a lease the owner can decide to either purchase the vehicle or turn it in and lease or purchase another vehicle. A lot of these EVs will be coming back to the dealerships and placed into the dealerships used inventory for purchase. We believe this will lead to some great deals on amazing EVs that have been barely used. Plus these EVs will all still be covered under the manufacture’s typical 8 year/100,000 mile warranty.
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Here’s a quick snapshot of what we have going on in the next few months.
July Monthly Meeting
July 11th, 11am-1pm 2026
Hey everyone,
We will be trying out a new meeting space for our July meeting. We will be meeting on Saturday July 11th at 11am. The meeting will be at the Knoxville Public Works building (3131 Morris Ave, Knoxville, TN 37909) that has a large meeting room. Hopefully we can start using this location as a good meeting location for us. This is the building that has the large solar farm you see from the interstate. This location also has several L2 chargers. Let’s see how we like it. We will have a quick summary on the success of last months EVs in the Smokies and then discuss several of the biggest EV news items and will also be discussing our plans for the rest of the year as we have some great guest speakers lined up for August and September meetings that leads into our biggest event of the year, the Knoxville Drive Electric Festival on October 10th. And as always bring us your EV questions.
- Meeting Agenda
- Introduction of new members, did any get an EV recently?
- Report of previous month events
- 6th annual EVs in the Smokies
- Very successful 50 vehicles and 74 test drives/rides
- Met our grant requirement, thanks everyone that helped and showed up!
- House bill BUILD America 250 Act (H.R. 8870)
- institutes a federal EV registration fee each year
- $130 for EVs and $35 for Plugin-Hybrids
- In 2029 the fees increase $5 every two years until they reach $150 and $50 respectively.
- How will this impact TN that already has a $200 EV fee, soon to be $274 on Jan 1st 2027?!?
- Will TN remove their fee or will we be stuck paying $404 a year?
- No where near fair or equivalent to gas tax fees.
- New DCFC chargers in the area
- The Local Market Gas Stations 300 Callahan Dr.
- 2 CCS1, ChargePoint each 62KW but if only one in use supposedly combines for 125KW.
- Pilot Travel Center Strawberry Plains Pike
- 4 CCS1 GM Energy 350KW
- Target on Washington Pike
- Coming Soon by Electrify America
- The Local Market Gas Stations 300 Callahan Dr.
- Dolly Parton opens Buc-ees competitor Dolly’s Tennessee Travel Center
- 3686 Pulaski Hwy, Cornersville, TN 37047
- 24 Tesla Superchargers
- Live music stage, Cup of Ambition Coffee and Cinnamon Bread Milkshakes!
- Summer Harper Cars and Coffee at West Town Mall
- August 2nd, 8am-11am (be parked with us by 6:30)
- Spring one had a lot of crazy energy
- additional details will be sent out in email later
- Good deals on Used EVs
- 1.2 million EVs coming off lease in next 18 months
- 40% of EVs on dealer lots are below $25k
- Average used EV only $1,000 more than gas car
- Polestar banned from sale in the US
- How are the Polestar owners feeling?
- August 8th Monthly Meeting
- Cedar Bluff Library 11am
- Guest Speaker: Dr. Knowles gives us the results of his EV survey
- Possible additional speaker
- September 19th Monthly Meeting (3rd Saturday)
- Back at Public Works building 11am
- Guest speaker: Knoxville Sustainability Manager Patience Melnik
- Shares with us the latest updates on EV infrastructure plans, the city EV fleet etc.
- Other EV News
- Chargepoint to install 2,500 chargers in multifamily housing in US
- Stellantis says 29 EV models by 2030 (in presentation to stockholders)
- Walmart charger network surpasses 300, initiating charging via the Walmart app will save you 10%
- GM Energy Pass to be one universal interface for public charging
- May 2026 solar out supplied coal for the first time in the US mixture, 12.8% to 12.2%
- way way more news to share
Meeting date and time: Saturday July 11th 11am-1pm
Meeting location: Knoxville Public Works Service Center 3131 Morris Ave, Knoxville, TN 37909
Summer Cars and Coffee
August 2nd, 8am-11am (be parked by 6:30am) West Town Mall
More details to come stay tuned.
August Monthly Meeting
August 8th, 11am-1pm Cedar Bluff Library
Join us for Dr. Knowles as he breaks down his EV survey and what all that data means. Stay tuned as we get more plans flushed out for additional speakers.
September Monthly Meeting
September 19th, 11am-1pm Knoxville Public Works Service Center
Our guest speaker will be Patience Melnik Knoxville Sustainability Manager, she will tell us all about the latest updates of what the city has planned and how things are already going. We look forward to hearing about any updates on EV infrastructure. Check back as we plan more detailed agenda.
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!
