In the winding scheme illustrated in FIG. 2, the first slot from each phase for each pole is occupied by conductors of the first drive module, the second slot from each phase for each pole is occupied by conductors of the second drive module, the third slot from each phase for each pole is occupied by conductors of the third drive module, and the fourth slot from each phase for each pole is occupied by conductors of the fourth drive module. For example, stator slots 1, 13, 25, and 37 are all occupied by two layers of hairpin/bar conductors that each carries the phase A output of an inverter of a first drive module, and stator slots 2, 14, 26, and 38 are all occupied by two layers of hairpin/bar conductors that each carries the phase A output of an inverter of a second drive module. Therefore, each hairpin/bar conductor has a crown-end pitch of 12 stator slots. The uniform distribution provided by this scheme (in which, for each phase, the slot number occupied by conductors of a particular module corresponds to the module number) results in a uniform generation of magnetic flux by each drive module.