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Tesla's New Motor & Drive Unit Teardown

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Shows the hairpin stator windings and new inverter design:

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Thank you for the link to a ( rare ) YooToob video that is actually interesting, accurate, and competent.
The optimisation in the inverter design is amazing - down from 84 paralleled cheap TO-247 IGBTs in the model S to just 24 Silicon Carbide FETs.
Using a block of ferrite passing though the PCB to turn printed tracks into a planar transformer for gate drive isolation is brilliant.
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Too bad he can't afford a tripod to hold the camera still...:ROFLMAO:
The patent on those hairpin windings hasn't quite run out yet (May 15...):

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