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.

July Monthly Meeting

July 12th, 2025 11am

Hey everyone, 

We will be having our monthly meeting this Saturday at 11am at UT Research Park. We will be discussing how the recent big bill that Trump signed will affect EVs. When will the EV tax credits end? Could this be the best time to buy an EV when you can double dip on the tax credit and the new $10,000 on the interest of car loans. We will discuss this double dip strategy and other changes introduced by this bill. We also have Harper Cars and Coffee this Sunday. Who all would like to show off their EV at this event? Come on out and join us. We will also be discussing our big fall Knoxville Drive Electric Festival. If you haven’t signed up to participate, we know it’s early but it helps us with early event promotion to have vehicles and attendees registered so please sign up if you can, see the link below.
Meeting Agenda
  • 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
  • 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

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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