Enter automobile teardown guru “Ingineerix.” In February, Ingineerix posted a series of fascinating videos exploring the workings of the Model 3. In an entry entitled “The Dark Side,” he explores the underside of the car and starts naming off components and subsystems as though he was reading from a teleprompter. Really detailed stuff that to the best of my knowledge hasn’t been explained publicly before. The guy seems to really know his stuff. I engaged Ingineerix in the video’s comments section, where he revealed that the car has a “Switched Reluctance motor, using permanent magnets.” Ingineerix went on to say, “Tesla calls it a PMSRM, Permanent Magnet Switched Reluctance Motor. It’s a new type, and very hard to get right, but Tesla did it!”
