The company has been exclusively working on induction motors for years when they decided to switch to permanent magnet motors for the rear-wheel-drive Model 3, which has been the only Model 3 in ...

Tesla is working on a new electric motor upgrade for Model S and Model X with a more efficient permanent magnet reluctance system based on the motor Tesla developed for Model 3. As we reported ...

In other designs, the magnets can be embedded in the stator, or the magnets can be arranged to work with a DC magnetic field. By contrast, induction motors ... magnets in its Model S and Model ...

The Model 3 debuted with an alternative motor technology that Tesla calls a permanent magnet synchronous reluctance ... of how switched reluctance motors work. In fact, these are different types ...