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.
August Monthly Meeting
August 8th, 11am-1pm Cedar Bluff Library
Hey everyone,
- Meeting Agenda
- Introduction of new members, did any get an EV recently?
- Report of previous month events
- Weather scared off Cars and Coffee
- Presentation/Discussion from Dr. Anthony Knowles
- UTK teaching assistant professor
- Department of Sociology
- Center for Transportation Research
- Presentation/Discussion from Martin Fern
- President & CEO Atomic Electric Service
- EV charger installs and other services
- Any interesting updates/news in residential electrical
- US DCFC installs 4,382 in Q2 of 2026
- Through the first half of 2026, 7,903 new ports came online
- Both numbers slightly down from this time last year
- 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.
- KDEF planning and volunteer signups
- KDEF Posters will be handed out.
- 2026 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival
- Oct 10th, 10am-3pm
- Pellissippi State Community College Main Campus Hardin Valley
- 2nd Largest NDEM event in the country last year!
- Rivian R2 to be featured
- 100+ EVs in the showcase over 40+ different models
- Signup today to help us promote the numbers
- https://driveelectricmonth.
org/event?eventid=5126
- Other EV News
- Ford and Geely join to produce European vehicle
- Samsung testing solid state batteries with 500wh/Kg means 600 mile batteries
- BEV out sold all other powertrains in Germany in June.
- Data showing Model Y & 3 losing only 20% of battery capacity at 200,000 miles
Meeting date and time: Saturday August 8th 11am-1pm
Meeting location: Cedar Bluff Library 9045 Cross Park Dr. Knoxville, TN, 37923
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.
2026 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival
October 10th, 2026 10am-3pm
Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley
The Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association (KEVA) and Drive Electric Tennessee (DET) are working to make the 2026 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 2025 Festival was the largest National Drive Electric Week event in the Southeast, and the 2nd largest event in the whole nation! With over 100 EVs representing 40+ different models. Let’s do it again in 2025! Come see electric cars, trucks, boats, bikes, buses, and motorcycles!
2025 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival – Welcome
Experience how fun EVs are to drive in our Test Drive area where we expect 15+ models to be available. This is your best chance of the year to see all the latest EV models in one place and talk to actual owners.
Rivian to be an official participate this year bringing the R2 for the test drive area and the EV showcase! If you have been interested in seeing and trying out the R2 this is your chance to do so!
The smaller R2 will be available to test and see at the 2026 KDEF
This is a festival, we will have food trucks and live music. We will update when we have the food trucks lined up. 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 the School of Rock House Band at 10:00am, and others to TBD shortly.
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.
2025 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival – Ridin’ & Drivin’
We are family friendly with activities for kids and games for adults and kids.
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://driveelectricmonth.org/event?eventid=5126
Tangled In Blues – 2024 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival
2025 Knoxville Drive Electric Festival – Then and Now: 1958 Ford Sheriff’s Car and 2024 Knoville Police Car
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!
