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28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower
(supercarblondie.com)
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Anything but metric!
1000 horses sounds cooler than 735 electrical pixies a second.
But horses are measured in hands, average of 16 hands so 16000 hands, 8000 people. That's like 1 electrical pixie per 11 people
And somehow also more impressive than one Zeus per minute
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.”
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