Faced with potentially huge orders North American electric vehicle manufacturers are about to start rolling up

Automakers are increasing, and so are automakers' evictions, so big companies like Amazon, AT&T, and IKEA are telling automakers what kind of electric cars they want, and those automakers can almost all meet the requirements of these companies, even some of them.

Members of the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance today presented automakers with their ideal "blueprint" of which (or what) electric vehicles they want to buy in the U.S. over the next five years.

According to Electrek, in January 2020, Ceres, a Boston-based nonprofit sustainability organization, formed the Enterprise Electric Vehicle Alliance, which aims to help companies accelerate their transition to electric vehicles.

Flagship members of the alliance include Amazon, AT&T, Clif Bar, Consumer Energy, DHL, Direct Energy, Genentech, IKEA North America, LeasePlan, Lime and Siemens. Alliance members own, lease or operate nearly 1.3 million road vehicles in the United States.

Automakers should cheer up attention, but brand loyalty at these companies is not high, and they have to roll up to win the favor of their financiers: In an intra-alliance survey, 96 percent of respondents would consider switching automakers in order to get the EV configuration they want.

In addition, the alliance's internal survey results show that participating members plan to buy 333,000 electric vehicles, ranging in size from Level 1 to Level 8.

Key conclusions include:

Battery preference: In most models, alliance members prefer pure electric vehicles to plug-in hybrids or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Flexibility of charging locations: While respondents said that most charging behavior will take place in private locations, such as employee homes or fleet warehouses, they also noted that road charging is a key factor in the commercialization of electric vehicles, especially for regional and long-distance freight.

Sedans: Sedans account for more than 75 percent of the light vehicles planned to be procured over the next five years, reaching 208,000 units. The purchase-weighted minimum ZEV mileage is 275 miles, which meets the majority of respondents' usage.

Required Vehicle Specifications: The analysis includes a detailed summary list of required specifications, including minimum electric range, towing capacity, and cargo space across models, details of which can be found in the report.

In an emailed statement, DHL USA CEO Greg Hewitt said: "DHL has set an ambitious goal to electrify 60 percent of its last-mile fleet over the next 10 years and introduce greener medium- and heavy-duty trucks to its fleet." ...... We hope that the forecasts and insights provided in the report will help accelerate the development and production of new electric vehicles in the most important segments of our growing industry."

This will be a huge collaboration between business and manufacturing over the next five years, and it will dramatically change the way commercial companies use electricity and other clean energy sources on their fleets.