August Monthly Meeting Saturday 9th, 11am, Let's Talk about Driving Cycles!

Hey everyone,
We will be meeting at the UT Research Park this Saturday at 11am. Let's have a discussion on the different country driving cycles and how to interpret what claimed EV range for either Europe or China might mean here in the US. We are hearing a lot about 500 mile range EVs in China but they are using their own CLTC driving cycle which typically is 35% higher than EPA range, so that would be about 325 miles in the US. We will also be discussing the latest updates to our biggest EV event of the year, Knoxville Drive Electric Festival which is September 27, please sign up now if you haven't already! The more people we have signed up early the more attention we can get from local officials and regional press, which can help promote the event.

Meeting Agenda

• Member Introductions, meet new members, anyone get a new EV?
• Report on Previous Month EVents
• Spring Cars and Coffee
• What are driving cycles?
• How EV range (and MPG) are calculated?
• The difference between EPA, WLTP, CLTC, and NEDC?
• Can we convert between them?
• Asian Festival EV display
• Sunday August 24th
• 10:30am-6:30pm
• 2 vehicles and maybe a bicycle?
• Knoxville Drive Electric Festival 2025
• September 27th, 10am-3pm
• Pellissippi Community College Hardin Valley
• Largest in the southeast!
• Ad placed in CityView Magazine, working on more
• Sign-up now to show your vehicle, we want a lot of EVs! We want to break last year's record!
• https://driveelectricmonth.org/event?eventid=4803
• Reminder EV Tax Credit Expires Sept 30th
• More EV News
• China Buick platform, 900 volt, 6C LFP battery, peak charging 650KW!
• Bill in Congress to require AM radio in vehicles, EV motors interfere with AM radio, that's why AM isn't in EVs.
• 93.5% tariff added to Chinese Graphite, which is heavily used in EV batteries.
• Ford announces "Model T moment" August 11th, for "breakthrough" EV and a new platform (rumors are a small electric pickup)

Meeting date and time: Saturday August 9th, 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.