10 years behind Tesla, they are doomed
My understanding is that all current Teslas use radial flux motors
... Eh? No. No current large-scale production car uses axial flux motors. You're talking concept cars, plus a few oddities like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_Artura
Actually, 137 years behind Tesla ;)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/axial-flux-motor-yasa