An electric motor, comprising: a rotor having plurality of permanent magnets and defining a rotation axis; a cage winding fixed to the rotor radially outward of the permanent magnets; a stator separated from the rotor by a radial air gap and having a power winding, wherein the stator includes a yoke extending about the rotor and a plurality of stator teeth extending radially inward toward the rotor, wherein the power winding is seated circumferentially between adjacent pairs of stator teeth, a plurality of magnetic flux diverters distributed about the stator radially between the power winding and the air gap, wherein the magnetic flux diverters are seated between adjacent pairs of stator teeth and radially inward of the power winding; wherein the magnetic flux diverters are configured to shunt magnetic flux within the stator; wherein each magnetic flux diverter includes a magnetic shunt with a control winding wrapped about the magnetic shunt, a voltage controller connected to the control windings of the magnetic flux diverters; wherein the magnetic shunt and the control winding are radially between the power winding and the radial air gap; wherein the cage winding includes a plurality of axially extending conductor rods, wherein the conductor rods are connected electrically in parallel with one another, wherein the conductor rods are seated in rotor pole shoes disposed radially outward of the permanent magnets; and wherein pairs of circumferentially adjacent conductor rods seated in a common pole shoe have a first spacing and circumferentially adjacent pairs of conductor rods seated in separate pole shoes have a second spacing, the second spacing being greater than the first spacing. a rotor having plurality of permanent magnets and defining a rotation axis; a cage winding fixed to the rotor radially outward of the permanent magnets; a stator separated from the rotor by a radial air gap and having a power winding, wherein the stator includes a yoke extending about the rotor and a plurality of stator teeth extending radially inward toward the rotor, wherein the power winding is seated circumferentially between adjacent pairs of stator teeth, a plurality of magnetic flux diverters distributed about the stator radially between the power winding and the air gap, wherein the magnetic flux diverters are seated between adjacent pairs of stator teeth and radially inward of the power winding; wherein the magnetic flux diverters are configured to shunt magnetic flux within the stator; wherein each magnetic flux diverter includes a magnetic shunt with a control winding wrapped about the magnetic shunt, a voltage controller connected to the control windings of the magnetic flux diverters; wherein the magnetic shunt and the control winding are radially between the power winding and the radial air gap; wherein the cage winding includes a plurality of axially extending conductor rods, wherein the conductor rods are connected electrically in parallel with one another, wherein the conductor rods are seated in rotor pole shoes disposed radially outward of the permanent magnets; and wherein pairs of circumferentially adjacent conductor rods seated in a common pole shoe have a first spacing and circumferentially adjacent pairs of conductor rods seated in separate pole shoes have a second spacing, the second spacing being greater than the first spacing.