• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    I love comments from people who quote horsepower on an electric motor when horsepower is a fake number generated by measuring torque and using a constant number. Only applicable to gasoline engines.

    This vehicle will carry 6 adults up a steep hill.

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      2 hours ago

      ICP. There were streets ahead. But yeah, I can wait for reviews before I start nitpicking a press release.

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      4 hours ago

      I only used hp because most people are more familiar with it.
      And for my own car hp is also used in more than 9 out of 10 spec spaces to describe the power.
      As I mentioned earlier, it has 150 kW equal to 204 hp.

      And no you are wrong, it is in no way only applicable to gasoline engine, even giving you the benefit of the doubt that you probably mean ICE, which can be gasoline, Diesel, propane or even hydrogen.

      IDK how old you are, but by your logic you sound like you are 8 years old.

    • sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip
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      4 hours ago

      horsepower is a fake number generated by measuring torque and using a constant number.

      It’s just a unit of power. You can calculate watts from force x speed, too, if you use metric units. Yeah, you can shift the whole thing to a rotational system with torque and rotational velocity (and then derive the linear equivalent force and speed from those units as the radius of the circle cancel out).

      Only applicable to gasoline engines.

      Power is power. By using similar units it makes it easier to compare different vehicles. If everyone wants to convert to watts, we can, but we’d still be making those comparisons.