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Well, this is interesting if true: the Model 3 has a different type of motor with permanent magnets according to this.
The Secrets of Electric Cars and Their Motors: It's Not All About the Battery, Folks

The arguments at the end seems specious(read: BS) to me.
Could it be that Tesla has found a solution to their overheating problem under high loads, where the rotor has no thermal conductance to the outside world? Could a permanent magnet rotor do the trick?

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