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also, dear technology journalist: [x] your description uses milliamp hours and milliamps per hour interchangeably [x] milliamp hours is a useless metric when
by elihu 6y ago
also, dear technology journalist:
[x] your description uses milliamp hours and milliamps per hour interchangeably
[x] milliamp hours is a useless metric when we don't know how big/heavy said battery is
[x] milliamp hours is a useless metric when we don't know the battery's voltage
- jsight 6y agoAt least it doesn't use milliamp hours per hour as a unit. I'm pretty sure one of the cars actually does that with KW (Kwh/hr).
- djrogers 6y agoThat seems like a reasonable unit to use when measuring charge rate though…
- NobodyNada 6y agoA kilowatt-hour is the total amount of energy transferred over the course of an hour at a rate of one kilowatt, so "kilowatt-hours per hour" is just "kilowatts".
- elihu 6y agoI can sort of see how that's justified when advertising to people who don't really understand electrical units. The battery capacity is listed in kilowatt hours. If you don't really understand what a kilowatt is but you know the battery has a capacity of 60 kilowatt hours, and the charger charges at 10 kilowatt hours per hour, then it'll charge in about 6 hours. Still, it does make me cringe a little.