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.

January Monthly Meeting

January 10th, 2025 NEW Location Cedar Bluff Library

Hey everyone, 

Happy New Year! We will be starting off 2026 with our first monthly meeting this Saturday the 10th at 11am at the Cedar Bluff Public Library. The address for the library is 9045 Cross Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37923. There is plenty of parking in the back. You may be wondering why we are not meeting at UT Research Park. UT has changed the requirements for accessing the buildings on the weekend so we can no longer meet there. We had to rush to find a substitute meeting location for this month. Hopefully we can find a meeting location in the future that is as good or better than our UT Research Park lecture room. If you have any suggestions on a good meeting location please send it to ecardwell@gmail.com. This month we will have a lot of new EV related information to discuss. How will developments in Venezuela affect the worldwide oil markets in the future? How will pull packs in EV models and increase of hybrid models delay EV adoption rates? We need a few volunteers for our EV booth at the February House and Garden show. And as always, feel free to bring your own questions about driving electric!
Meeting Agenda
  • Member Introductions, meet new members, anyone get a new EV?
  • Report on previous month events
    • December holiday party
  • Venezuelan oil market
    • sweet crude vs heavy crude
    • how cheap can gas get?
    • $70/barrel survival limit?
  • OEM’s canceling or pulling back EV
    • Ford announced cancelation of F-150
    • VW Buzz skipping 2026
    • While some pull back, others advance
    • How will this affect EV adoption?
  • Rivian “Autonomy & AI Day” Dec. 11th
    • Custom AI silicon chip
    • Hands-free driving
    • AI assistant
  • February House and Garden Show
  • March Monthly Meeting at Cadillac Knoxville
    • See newly renovated showroom
    • Hear about the latest Cadillac EVs like the Vistiq and the V-series offerings
    • Cadillac to invite all previous EV buyers as well as KEVA
    • Possible radio remote
  • Other EV News
    • Is GM considering the Tesla Model X designer and Aurora Co-founder as the next CEO?
    • Ford switches battery capacity to home backup power systems.
    • BYD overtakes Tesla as the global EV seller.
    • EV tech to be announced at CES 2026
 Meeting date and time: Saturday January 10th, 11am-1pm 

Meeting location: Cedar Bluff Public Library, 9045 Cross Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37923

February Dogwood Arts House & Garden Show

February 6th-8th, 2026, Knoxville Convention Center

We have been invited back for the 2026 House & Garden Show at the Knoxville Convention Center. We expect to have two of the latest EVs on display there and a ton of information about driving electric and how you can get your home ready for EV charging. More details to come so stay tuned.

https://www.dogwoodarts.com/houseandgardenshow

March Monthly Meeting

March Meeting at Cadillac of Knoxville

Cadillac has invited us to host a meeting at there newly renovated showroom for our March meeting. Come check out all the latest that Cadillac as to offer such as the new Vistiq 3 row seating EV as well as there full line up of Lyriqs, Optiqs, and IQs! We are locking down all the details and will update this page when we have everything figured out.

See you there!

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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