kalkulat@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days ago28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepowersupercarblondie.comexternal-linkmessage-square121linkfedilinkarrow-up1456file-text
arrow-up1456external-link28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepowersupercarblondie.comkalkulat@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square121linkfedilinkfile-text
Maker website: https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-density-world-record-pushing-state-of-the-art-electric-motor-to-staggering-new-59kw-kg-benchmark/
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·13 days ago1000 horses sounds cooler than 735 electrical pixies a second.
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoAnd somehow also more impressive than one Zeus per minute
minus-squareTheoriginalthon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoBut horses are measured in hands, average of 16 hands so 16000 hands, 8000 people. That’s like 1 electrical pixie per 11 people
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·13 days agoHorsepower is a pretty standard way to advertise things in the automotive industry…
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 days agoBut it should be kilowatts. There’s no reason not to use the standard metric for power, it’s unnecessary fragmentation of figures
Anything but metric!
1000 horses sounds cooler than 735 electrical pixies a second.
And somehow also more impressive than one Zeus per minute
But horses are measured in hands, average of 16 hands so 16000 hands, 8000 people. That’s like 1 electrical pixie per 11 people
Horsepower is a pretty standard way to advertise things in the automotive industry…
But it should be kilowatts. There’s no reason not to use the standard metric for power, it’s unnecessary fragmentation of figures