The Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association (KEVA) is 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 driver’s seat at any of our meetings or various events.

KEVA monthly meetings are the second Saturday of every month, usually at 11:00 AM at Carl Cowan Park on Northshore Drive.  The meeting location may occasionally change due to weather or other issues.  Information is posted to the KEVA website and KEVA FB group. Bring a chair and join the discussions. 

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The Electric Auto Association (EAA) is a network of EV enthusiasts and “North America’s leading nonprofit that accelerates the adoption of electric vehicles by supporting its 100 chapters and thousands of members as they talk neighbor-to-neighbor in their communities about the benefits of driving electric.” The EAA is our parent organization and we are one of two official chapters in Tennessee (along side the Chattanooga chapter). As KEVA – the Knoxville EV Association – we have been around since forming in 2005 and worked since inception to positively impact citizens in the greater Knoxville community to educate them about the benefits of driving electric.

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The East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition (ETCleanFuels) is one of roughly 90 U.S. DOE “Clean Cities” Programs across the country and serves the eastern half of Tennessee. ETCleanFuels works in partnership with the other in-state program – the Middle-West TN Clean Fuels Coalition – to serve fleets, partners and other entities with services related to education, outreach and implementation of alternative fuels in vehicles. ETCleanFuels has been working with KEVA for over a decade to plan and hold EV “Ride & Drives” and work on EV outreach throughout the region.

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The Drive Electric TN (DET) initiative was born in 2014 by ETCleanFuels to build out educational work to Tennessee citizens on EVs, and work on the Tennessee Workplace Charging Program. In 2017, TVA made a commitment to massively boost the effort and funded several types of work that involved over 100 different people from across Tennessee and beyond to develop the Tennessee EV Roadmap and other outputs to help us have good data. Since then, three “Working Groups” were started and have developed over 10 task forces or committees to work on specific barrier-removing actions to assist Tennessee in growing the number of EVs in our roads from roughly 10,000 at the start of 2020 to 200,000 by the end of 2028.

Current Upcoming Events

Upcoming EVents

Here’s a quick snapshot of what we have going on in the next few months.

December Holiday Party at Schulz Brau Brewery

December 6th, 2025, 12pm-?

Photo credit to Inside of Knoxville

Hey everyone,
We decided at the last meeting to have our holiday party at Schulz Brau Brewery on December 6th at noon. If you are unfamiliar, this is the German brewery that looks like a castle from the outside and has a 6,000 sqft beer garden that’s decorated up for the holidays. Last year they had some fake snow going and multiple fire pits. They also will have the German style Christmas market going on at the same time, so you can do some holiday shopping as well. They offer a menu of authentic German cuisine. Which includes some vegan and vegetarian options too. We will try and take over a long table for ourselves. But if the upstairs mezzanine is free we may try to get seating up there so check there as well if you don’t see any of us in the regular area.

There is no planned agenda for discussion, we will just use this event to socialize and hangout and talk about whatever we want.

However, we have been asked to help support the Consumer Reports EV Charging Community by signing up to join CR EV Charging Community to provide our input on experiences with discussions and potential surveys. EVA is running a contest that will pay the chapter with the most people signed up $500, 2nd and 3rd get $250 and $125 respectively. So to help us win some money, please sign up by following this link and selecting Knoxville in the chapter list so we get credit for your signup. https://www.myeva.org/ev-charging-community If you sign up, please be on the lookout for emails from CR where they ask for your input on various EV questions.

Thanks everyone, see you there!

Meeting date and time: Saturday December 6th, noon-?
Meeting location: Schulz Brau Brewery 126 Bernard Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917 https://www.schulzbraubrewing.com/

January Monthly Meeting

January 10th, 2025 (possibly change based on winter weather)

Stay tuned as we are working on getting a guest speaker to come talk to use for this meeting, so check back as we get closer.

Our Staple Yearly Big Events

Drive Electric Earth Day (DEED) is a national campaign to share information about electric vehicles throughout the month of April. In addition to being better for the environment, electric vehicles are more fun to drive, more convenient to fuel and less expensive to operate than gasoline vehicles. Attend an online event to experience driving electric!

National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) is a nationwide celebration to raise awareness of the many benefits of all-electric and plug-in hybrid cars, trucks, motorcycles, and more.  Hundreds of events are held each year, with many in-person events offering the opportunity to talk with EV owners, and to ride in or drive a variety of EVs.  NDEW usually takes place in late September, check the website for current dates.  Nationally, NDEW is sponsored by Plug In America, Nissan, and the Electric Auto Association.

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