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.

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

Client List Project Types Technical Specialties

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