THE VIDEO SHELF · electric motor design
Tesla Model 3's motor - The Brilliant Engineering behind it
An engineering explainer on why Tesla abandoned the induction motor for the Model 3 and used an IPM-SynRM design. It covers the reluctance torque and permanent magnet principles behind the choice.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a clear explanation of the Model 3 motor and reluctance rotor design.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Sabin Civil Engineering
- Topic
- electric motor design
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
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Youtube has recommended a few videos from the channel Learn Engineering that have been surprisingly good. For example: [VIDEO]
sorenjan on Hacker News · 2020-12
In 1937 film explains how a car differential worksA tesla Model 3 motor already is partially a reluctance motor. This youtube video describes it rather well, and I'd recommend giving it a watch [1]. Notice the air gaps - thats the reluctance part of the rotor. [1]: [VIDEO]
londons_explore on Hacker News · 2022-08
In A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
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