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I'm really surprised you don't see the inverter and the motors closer coupled in Tesla's designs.

For example, by having MOSFETs spliced into the wire wound onto the stator. That minimises wire length (and therefore resistance). The heavy motor windings are a great heatsink for brief acceleration, and both will need liquid cooling for prolonged 100 mph driving up a hill.

Almost all high power switches are made to be soldered directly to cables.

The article mentions GaN not widely used because it is integrated with Si. Cree’s process is GaN on SiC, so you’d get better heat dissipation than in Si, but it costs more. There are also done processes integrating a diamond heat spreader under the GaN channel.

@madengr it seems you were secretly banned (shadowbanned)

https://ibb.co/NK6Yhj5

There's nothing secret about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23559004

@madengr it seems you were secretly banned (shadowbanned)

https://ibb.co/NK6Yhj5