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@Chris T.
You must be reading the Detroit propaganda. That was a case where Tesla engineers didn't originally have enough confidence in the electric drivetrain.
Early on, they launched a 2-prong approach to getting the awesome acceleration they needed to get people to notice them. The first approach was the conventional one that's been used to get enough low-speed torque to the wheels in an ICE -- adding gears. Their second approach was designing a more powerful (and efficient) power electronics module that could dump more current into the electric motor and, hence, get more torque from the motor.
Replacing a many-hundred dollar transmission with $10s worth of more IGBTs and saving a few tenths of a second in your 0-60 acceleration time is a pretty good tradeoff, especially when it also increases your efficiency.
Anyone who has worked with electric motors knows that using a gearbox to get more torque is kind of like using a buggy whip to make an ICE car go faster. It's the old reliable tool but the wrong approach.
While Detroit's archaic dinosaurs smugly snicker at Tesla's inability to get a gearbox to work, the solution they ended up with is actually the right answer since it is more efficient, more reliable, higher performance, and cheaper.
Nobody in any rational EV company is even considering a transmission for the future. Its only the troglodytes such as GM, Toyota, and Ford that insist on putting mechanical transmissions in their EVs but that is only to keep their legacy powertrain divisions happy.
The problem was solved.