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Designing sound for Electric Vehicle is an approach being progressively assimilated in the automotive product development and considered one of the strategic assets for the sustainable future of mobility. Nevertheless, this design process presents several challenges, since it requires multidisciplinary expertise and skills, collaboration and decision-making, among designers, sound experts, engineers, product experts, and other professionals. In this context, the Ircam / Sound Perception & Design group has been collaborating since 2009 with the French car manufacturer Renault. We present our latest project, developed in 2024-25, which allowed us to generate and produce not only solutions but also knowledge on both the manufacturer and the research group sides. The project enabled us to advance the experimentation and implementation of an integrated methodology based on novel and proprietary collaborative sound design protocols, methods and tools, thus making this project a good case of sound-driven design and collaboration. The ins and outs of this fruitful and successful project will then be presented, discussed, and put in perspective for possible future works.