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The engineers at Tesla Motor developed an amazing design for the Tesla Model 3. They moved away from the conventional, proven induction motors and replaced them with a new motor instead: the IPMSynRM. These motors have a completely different design and use both the magnetic and reluctance effect. In addition, Tesla Motors has started to replace even the induction motors from the Model S with these new motors! But how do these motors work? And what is so special about the IPMSynRM? Let's look at that now.