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by Kirby64 925 days ago
You're correct in all of that in regards to mechanical relays, but none of this matters for solid state devices. I'm not aware of any actual mechanical relays in Tesla's. They do have contactors for the HVDC connections, but that's about as close as you get to relays. Hell, they don't even have fuses; they use self reset-able 'soft' fuses.

You have to worry about shutting down current quickly (i.e., inductor flyback), but that's a pretty trivial problem to solve.