Automotive

With 75 years serving the automotive market, our team has been on the forefront of the transition to electric vehicles.

Put simply, there is no other choice when it comes to automotive facility design. We are the firm of choice for the world’s most successful and innovative automotive manufacturers. Our performance speaks for itself, and historically our design pays for itself—literally—returning hundreds of millions of dollars to our clients in the form of cost savings.

At SSOE, we don’t just see the future—we help create it. We’ve worked with start-ups as well as the world’s largest and most innovative automotive and battery manufacturing companies to retrofit facilities for EV production, design and construct greenfield EV plants, and to support the battery manufacturing process at every point in the supply chain.

#4

Automotive Plant Design Firm

Ranked #4 Automotive Plant Design Firm in 2024 (ENR)

28M SF

Electric Vehicle Facilities

SSOE has completed over 28 million SF of electric vehicle facilities to date

$560M

Cost Savings

SSOE has documented more than $560M in savings for automotive clients over the past decade

    “As a multi-discipline design firm, SSOE has a lot of depth and breadth of project experience, not only with us but with a number of other major vehicle manufacturers as well. We’ve been working with SSOE for a long time. They do a great job for us, and we plan to continue using them on projects going forward.”

    Architectural Functional Leader – Project Engineer, Automotive Manufacturing Client

    OEMs

    • BMW Group
    • Caterpillar
    • FCA Group
    • Daimler
    • Ford
    • General Motors
    • Honda
    • Hyundai / Kia
    • Kenworth
    • Lucid Motors
    • Nikola
    • Nissan
    • Paccar
    • Toyota
    • Volkswagen

    Tier Suppliers

    • American Axle Manufacturing
    • Ascend Elements
    • Bocar
    • Bosch
    • Bridgestone / Firestone
    • Continental Tire
    • Cummins
    • Dana
    • Detroit Diesel
    • Durr Systems
    • Gallagher-Kaiser
    • Gedia Automotive Group
    • Guardian Industries
    • Kore Power
    • Magna International
    • Panasonic Energy
    • TKS Automotive
    • TRW Automotive
    • ZF Friedrichshafen AG

    Manufacturing

    • Body / weld
    • Die casting
    • Final trim / assembly
    • Foundry
    • Frame / Chassis
    • Machining
      • Heat treatment
      • Mist collection
      • Scrap handling
    • Paint shops
    • Plastics injection molding
    • Press / stamping
    • Subassembly
      • Scrap handling
      • Frame / Chassis
      • Engine
      • Transmission

    Support Facilities

    • Automatic Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS)
    • Bridges
      • Conveyance
      • Pedestrian
      • Vehicle
    • Data centers
    • Distribution centers and parts warehouses
    • Fire stations
    • Logistics centers
    • Offices, locker rooms, and cafeterias
    • Paint / mix storage
    • Security buildings
    • Utility centers
    • Visitors centers

    R&D and Testing

    • Advanced vehicle design
    • Anechoic chambers
    • Coordinate measuring machines
    • Dynamometers
    • Emission soak rooms
    • Environmental chambers
    • Model / machine shops
    • Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) rooms
    • Radio frequency interference chambers
    • Scaled wind tunnels
    • Test sleds
    • Test tracks
    • Test labs
      • Electrical
      • Fuel test
      • HVAC
      • Instrumentation
      • Material
      • Metrology
      • Vehicle analysis
    • Air permitting
    • Arc flash studies
    • Battery hazards
    • BIM
    • Central plant utilities
    • Cleanrooms
    • Design studios
    • Data systems
    • Facility conversions for electric vehicles
    • Factory automation
    • Fire protection and alarm
    • Interior and landscape design
    • Laser scanning
    • LEED certifications
    • On-site owner’s representative
    • Pipe stress analysis
    • Plant and infrastructure design
    • Rail spurs
    • Renewable energy feasibility studies
    • Security systems
    • Sequencing centers
    • Site evaluation and planning
    • Stress analysis
    • Tank farms
    • Wastewater treatment

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