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.

Oak Ridge Farmers Market 2024

April 20thst, 2024 8am-1pm 

281 Broadway Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 

Please come out to Jackson Square in Oak Ridge, TN and see the Knoxville Electric Vehicle Association at the Oak Ridge Farmers’ Market, hosted by East Tennessee FARM. We will have an Electric Vehicle on display and lots of information about Electric Vehicles and Driving Electric. While you are shopping the Market, stop by and see us if you are curious about EVs or considering an electric for your next vehicle purchase. We will have information available and years worth of daily use experience to share with you. What better way to celebrate Earth Month than learning about clean driving and shopping fresh farm-grown produce! Event listing is found here https://driveelectricearthmonth.org/event?eventid=4201

Spring Cars and Coffee 2024

April 21st, 2024, West Town Mall 8am-11am (get there by 6am!)

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. Last years spring attendance was 15,000 people!

Let’s Fill up several rows with EVs! 

We will be located near the Dillard’s entrance. We usually try to get there early at 5:00am to reserve our rows of parking. 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 at that time. They will not let you into our area after 8am. 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.

If you plan on attending, please Register to “Participate” here https://driveelectricearthmonth.org/event?eventid=4250  so we can maintain a car count to reserve spaces and it counts as a Drive Electric Earth Month Event.

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

Fall 2023 Cars and Coffee from drone

Fall 2023 Cars and Coffee from drone

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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