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.

June Monthly Meeting

June 14th, 2025 11am

Hey everyone,
We will be having our monthly meeting at 11am this Saturday. We will discuss the success of EVs in the Smokies and talk about planning our biggest yearly September event called Knoxville Drive Electric Festival. We will also be covering a lot of EV news that’s been happening. Hopefully we will have some new people join us that have discovered us from our various events so far this year. As always, come out and have your EV questions answered, and check out our members’ EVs.
Meeting Agenda
Member introductions, meet new members, any get a new EV?
Report on Previous Month EVents
Updates on EV credits and Federal EV Tax Bill in Congress
  • Bill passes house to federally recoup road taxes
  • $250 for EVs and $100 hybrids
  • This could possibly be on top of already heavy state registration fees!
  • Where is the Senate on EV tax credits?
OEMs state consolidation of manufacturing ICE engines.
  • Does this imply there’s no more invitations for gasoline engines?
  • Ford mentions teaming up with VW
We are ordering more name tags if you want in on the order
Knoxville Drive Electric Festival
  • September 27th, 10-3pm
  • Pellissippi Community College Hardin Valley
  • Planning and discussion
  • Possible different committees
  • What attracts the public the best? Social media? Paper/magazine?
  • Need your help by signing up early
  • https://driveelectricmonth.org/event?eventid=4803
Other events coming up
  • Asian festival exhibit August 24th
  • Christmas parade?
  • Share your ideas!
More EV News
  • Waymo using Zeekr vehicles
  • Interestingly GM abandons $300 Million electric motor investment for a $900 million V8 ICE instead!
  • China holding back on Rare Earth minerals causing shortages, US and EU to make deals.
  • American OEMs consider leaving Chinese market as consolidations start.
  • And more news
Meeting date and time: Saturday June 14th, 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.

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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