Hello and welcome to the Friday April 5th

2019 edition of Tesla Daily on Official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we are talking about the Power Trains in Model S and Model X, as well as Hardware 3.

Tesla's talk on the day today did finish up 2.68% to $274.96, this compared to the NASDAQ up 0.59%.

Starting off with the power trains, Electrac posted earlier tonight that Tesla may be planning to update the Power Trains for

Model S and Model X. From Electric, quote, last year we reported that Tesla is planning an interior

design refresh for the second half of 2019.

Now we've learned that Tesla is also planning a power train upgrade for model S and model X.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Tesla started including references to new motors for

Model S and Model X in recent software updates. The new electric motors, codenamed Raven,

are permanent magnet reluctance motors like the ones found in model three."

So this would be a change from the current AC induction motors that Tesla uses on

S&X today.

There are certainly some big positives to permanent magnet motors that Tesla uses in the model 3 versus the AC induction motors they're using in S&X right now.

Main ones being cost and efficiency.

We talked quite a bit about this on the January 3rd episode of Tesla Daily if you want to go back and listen to a little bit more of that.

It was based on the comments made by Sandy Monroe at that time on Tesla's permanent magnet motors and how impressed he was with them.

As the technology stands today, the main downside for the permanent magnet reluctance motor

versus the induction motor is a little bit lower peak performance because at high RPM the permanent magnet motors cannot generate as much torque as the induction motors can at high

rpm.

Given the importance of that incredible peak power for at least the performance variance of SNX, it would be surprising to see

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