FIG. 2 illustrates the assignment of conductors of distributed conductor windings of independent drive modules of a four-pole, three-phase electric machine according to an embodiment. FIG. 2 illustrates (in the top two rows thereof) the assignment of conductors of the distributed windings of the four independent drive modules to the 48 stator slots. FIG. 2 also illustrates (in the bottom two rows thereof), for a single phase (phase A) of each of the four drive modules, crown ends of the hairpin/bar conductors (e.g. a crown end 13 of a hairpin/bar conductor 10 as illustrated in FIG. 1) that connect the positive coil sides and the negative coil sides occupying individual stator slots in a wave winding progression. The wave winding layout illustrated in FIG. 2 is a two-layer winding where each stator slot is occupied by two layers of hairpin/bar conductors that each correspond to the same phase of the three phase output provided by an inverter of a particular drive module. In particular, each of the stator slots 1-48 illustrated in FIG. 2 is occupied by two positive coil sides or two negative coil sides of hairpin/bar conductors (e.g. positive coil side 11 or negative coil side 12 of a hairpin bar conductor 10 as illustrated in FIG. 1). Although FIG. 2 illustrates a two-layer winding, alternative embodiments may include single layer windings as well as windings with more than two layers.