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 Vehicle 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 EVA 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.

November Monthly Meeting

Tri Hop Brewery

November 8th, 2025  12-2pm

Hey everyone,

We have to change up the meeting location for November since UT decided that all buildings will remain locked during football game weekends. We have decided to hold our meeting in Maryville at the new Tri Hop Brewery, not only is this a cool location it’s also created by one of our sponsors. The brewery opens at noon so we will shift the meeting time to 12-2pm. They don’t have food onsite but they are only a block away from Vienna Coffee that has a good selection of breakfast and other items that you can bring back to the brewery. Check out Vienna Coffee menu here. And there is also a Farmer’s Market going on Broadway from 8:30am-11:30am that morning so if you want you could get there early and make a day of it and check out the market before the meeting!  The meeting will be discussing the latest news and developments in the EV space and welcoming new people that have discovered us from our recent events. As always we are here to answer your questions about driving electric!
Meeting Agenda
  • Member Introductions, meet new members, anyone get a new EV?
  • Report on Previous Month EVents
    • Fall Cars and Coffee
      • EV celebrity hangs out
      • Areas only fully electric ice cream /coffee food truck
    • 5th Annual Knoxville Drive Electric Festival
      • Largest free standing event in the country
      • 2nd Largest overall in the country
  • Guest Speaker/Topic
  • Battery Report Proves Longevity
    • 8 out 10 EVs retained 90% of battery capacity
    • Differences in chemistry
    • Which models were best
    • Solid-state is slowly rolling out
  • What to do with amazing video content from KDEF
    • Preview some of the videos
    • Brainstorm some ideas
  • EV Sales Numbers
    • In Q3 more than 1 in 5 vehicles sold globally were BEV
    • US Q3 rush led to record 438,487 EVs sold
    • EV sales expected to cool after rebate rush
  • December Holiday Party
    • Options on where to have it?
    • When works best?
  • More EV News
    • GM lays off 1,200 workers at EV facilities
    • Toyota Corolla to be offered as EV version
    • Rivian enters e-bike market
    • GM says “eyes off” road driving in 2028
    • and more
Meeting date and time: Saturday November 8th, 12pm-2pm 

Meeting location: Tri Hop Brewery 205 Court Street Maryville, TN 37804 

December Holiday Party

TBD

We are figuring out where to have the holiday party, please check back to see what fun idea we come up with.

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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