Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower

Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  1000 horses sounds cooler than 735 electrical pixies a second.

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And somehow also more impressive than one Zeus per minute

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  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But horses are measured in hands, average of 16 hands so 16000 hands, 8000 people. That’s like 1 electrical pixie per 11 people

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Horsepower is a pretty standard way to advertise things in the automotive industry…

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But it should be kilowatts. There’s no reason not to use the standard metric for power, it’s unnecessary fragmentation of figures

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• TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well the metric version is about 1014 PS, but honestly the difference between horsepower and pferdestärke is pretty negligible.

  Sadly “745 kW” doesn’t sound as cool as “1000 horsepower.”

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What are you on about? The metric unit for power is the Watt

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    • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What are you on about? The metric unit for power is the Watt

      They said anything but metric. The SI unit for power is the Watt, sure, but there are other metric units that are not SI units. One of these is the metric horsepower. 1 metric horsepower is defined as the amount of power required to raise 75kg of mass 1 meter in 1 second against Earth’s gravity. I used pferdestärke because automakers use the “PS” abbreviation in my experience.

      This unit exists as an attempt to have a value comparable to historic mechanical horsepower measurements but defined with metric terms.

      Obviously Watts are the preferred unit for most things, but the automotive world still likes horsepower. So, metric horsepower.

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Colloquially “metric” means the SI-system though. It’s not all prescriptively correct terms. Hell, even the name isn’t, as the French and English couldn’t

        So I’m not goanna say your wrong per se. But you’re not exactly right either

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      • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That sounds very dependent on the language. I’ve never read/heard “PS” before. Let’s just use kW ffs.

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Watt? 🤔

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Mitchell and Webb - Four Candles

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