by means of a 1980s Maytag washing machine motor. Many of us will be used to old-style induction motors, in which two windings were fed out of phase via a large capacitor. This one doesn’t have ...

Tesla Motors CEO Martin Eberhard is an electrical engineer, so he's qualified to describe the 284-horsepower 3-phase, 4-pole AC induction motor that will power the revolutionary Tesla Roadster.