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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 S is direct drive... so no gears.

So we'll just ignore that one gear in the box and the several that make up the open differential?

You could have a direct drive motor at each wheel. I'm not sure if the Tesla does this but it's one possibility.