Electrical machine having defined positioning of various recesses in a wet-running stator

An electrical machine for driving a motor vehicle, comprising a housing, a stator, which is fixedly accommodated in the housing, and a rotor, which is mounted rotatably relative to the stator, the stator having a laminated core composed of a plurality of punched lamination segments, and having a wire winding region connected to the laminated core, and each lamination segment of the plurality of punched lamination segments having, on its radial exterior, at least one radial recess formed by punching production, and a coolant guide channel being delimited directly by an outer periphery of the laminated core, wherein a recess of a first lamination segment of the plurality of punched lamination segments is spaced apart, along the outer periphery, from a recess of a second lamination segment of the plurality of punched lamination segments directly abutting the first lamination segment in such a way that the recess of the first lamination segment is at least partly axially covered by an end face of the second lamination segment.