Automotive & Aftermarket

Automotive & Aftermarket Product Engineering for rail, fleet, EV and micromobility clients.

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Where Design Meets the Road

VinFast's VF3 launched to 27,649 pre-orders within 66 hours. We designed it digital-first, using CAS tools to test multiple surfacing and colourway variants in parallel with VinFast's engineering team, instead of resolving one clay model at a time.

Our automotive department grew out of ex-Holden talent, kept in the Australian design ecosystem after the studio closed. That experience shows up in every transport project, not just the ones badged automotive.

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Concept has to survive contact with the road.

Design Language Meets Regulatory Reality

Transport products get judged against road, rail and EMC standards before they get judged against a brief. We design for that from the first sketch, not as a compliance pass at the end.

For the VF3, that meant fitting a 32kW motor and 18.64kWh battery into a 3.19 metre footprint, with 285 litres of cargo space and a folding rear seat still intact. Ten to seventy percent fast-charging happens in 36 minutes.

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Hundreds of transport, mobility and automotive products

Successfully delivered for rail, fleet, EV and micromobility clients

Our transport portfolio spans electric vehicles, concept cars, bikes, exercise bikes, micromobility, EV charging and bespoke accessories.

With multidisciplinary teams across industrial design, mechanical and electronic engineering, firmware and systems engineering, we manage the full product development process from research through to production handover. We understand the harsh realities of transport environments and design for safety, reliability and compliance with road, rail and EMC standards.

Whether you’re creating rugged equipment for field use or connected devices for fleet telematics and shared mobility. Our decades of experience and global manufacturing knowledge ensure your transport product is ready for market.

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In-house capabilities:

EV development, concept vehicles, micromobility, EV charging, fleet telematics, Class-A surfacing, finite-element analysis, kinematic studies

Standards we work to:

Road and rail compliance, EMC standards

We work with clients to develop automotive and aftermarket solutions.

Award winning expertise

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See it built. Transport and Mobility Work.

Explore some of our latest award winning product design projects below. Learn how outerspace helps clients transform initial ideas into manufacturable solutions delivered on time and on budget.
Flush-mounted, automatically presenting automotive door handle
Flush-mounted, automatically presenting automotive door handle
Autonomous Delivery Vehicle
Autonomous Delivery Vehicle
VF Wild Mid-Size ePickup
VF Wild Mid-Size ePickup
Hydrogen Dispenser
Hydrogen Dispenser
VF3 MINI-eSUV
VF3 MINI-eSUV
Ford F-150 LHD to RHD Conversion
Ford F-150 LHD to RHD Conversion
Robust Vehicle Mounted WiFi hotspot
Robust Vehicle Mounted WiFi hotspot
Modular utility bed
Modular utility bed