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When you have electric motors that produce torque at any RPM, then as long as you can manufacture a motor to spin fast enough, you don't need gears. The Model

When you have electric motors that produce torque at any RPM, then as long as you can manufacture a motor to spin fast enough, you don't need gears. The Model S is direct drive... so no gears.

walkon 13y ago
So we'll just ignore that one gear in the box and the several that make up the open differential?
- ams6110 13y ago
  You could have a direct drive motor at each wheel. I'm not sure if the Tesla does this but it's one possibility.