Differentials with face gears for electrical drive systems

An electric drive system in a battery electric vehicle (BEV), comprising:

• an output shaft, configured to couple with a drive wheel of the BEV, having a face gear at a distal end;
• a differential, including a reduced diameter pinion gear cage receiving reduced axial length pinion gears rotatably connected to the reduced diameter pinion gear cage via gear pins;
• a housing that receives the differential having an outer surface that is configured to couple to a rotating electrical machine of the BEV;
• and
• one or more reduction gearboxes coupled to the output shaft and configured to couple to a drive wheel of the BEV, wherein the reduced axial length pinion gears engage the face gear and permit angular displacement of the output shaft relative to another output shaft.