May Monthly Meeting Saturday 10th

Hey everyone,
We will be having our monthly meeting this Saturday May 10th, at UT Research Park at 11am. We have a lot of EV news to discuss at this meeting. We have moved EVs in the Smokies to May 31st. Bring your EV to hang out with us and have a fun day in the Smoky Mountains! We are responding to everyone that told us July was way too hot to have a meetup in the Smokies so we hope that May will offer us more enjoyable temperatures.

Meeting Agenda

• Member introductions, meet new members, any get a new EV?
• Report on Previous Month EVents
• UTK Ride and Drive -- Jonathan
• Paws for the Cause --- Jake and Nicole
• Dogwood Arts Festival -- Eric
• Other area events
• Featured EV
• Come see Eric's New 2025 Cadillac Optiq (He finally upgraded!)
• EVs in the Smokies (EVITS)
• May 31st, Noon-4pm, Townsend, TN
• Peaceful Side Social -- a local restaurant and brewery
• Several EVs available for Ride and Drives
• Bring family and friends that want to try out EVs!
• Bring your EV to show and hang out with fellow EV drivers, play some lawn games!
• https://driveelectricearthmonth.org/event?eventid=4804
• IONNA Charger Network
• Who is IONNA, Where are they?
• What's a Rechargery?
• 30,000 chargers by 2030
• (Please how do we get one here?)
• https://www.ionna.com/
• Walmart Starts Own EV Charging Network
• No not EA, Walmart tired of losing easy money to EA starts own charger build out
• 400kw DC fast chargers, NACS and CCS
• uses standard Walmart app
• Slate Truck announced
• $20,000 piecemeal EV truck a good idea?
• Hottest topic we heard at Dogwood festival
• Who got reservations?
• https://www.slate.auto/
• Federal EV Tax Bill in Congress
• Bill advanced that tries to federally recoup road taxes
• $250 for EVs and $100 hybrids
• This could possibly be on top of already heavy state registration fees!
• More EV News
• New 3 row 615hp Cadillac Vistiq is now on the lot at Cadillac Knoxville
• CATL new battery, 930 mile range, 320 miles in 5 minutes charging!
• 2025 Kia EV6 has upgraded battery and NACs connector
• Aurora's Fully driverless big rigs on the roads between Dallas and Houston
• Blazer SS, Optiq-V, Lyriq-V announced with 0-60 in 3.3 seconds!

Meeting date and time: Saturday May 10th, 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.