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Obviously you knew. Even Tesla themselves sometime use kW instead of kWh. I know it's wrong but hey, what's the big deal.

I never saw Tesla being so unprofessional and lame as to use kW instead of kWh.

And deal here - it is really confusing to see, and cast doubts whether to believe what was written or not.

Again, it is not simply wrong, but in fact confusing.

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PS. Just like someone using kilograms instead of kilometers to describe radius of the Earth...
 
I never saw Tesla being so unprofessional and lame as to use kW instead of kWh.

And deal here - it is really confusing to see, and cast doubts whether to believe what was written or not.

Again, it is not simply wrong, but in fact confusing.

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PS. Just like someone using kilograms instead of kilometers to describe radius of the Earth...

More like using Miles instead of miles per hour, when talking about speed, no...?
 
And deal here - it is really confusing to see, and cast doubts whether to believe what was written or not.
Again, it is not simply wrong, but in fact confusing
Exactly, it is wrong and confusing.
There are already too many people that can't tell the difference between kW and kWh. Those who understand should use right terms and not add to confusion.

Especially because max battery power (measured in kW) is the primary factor affecting battery life.
 
Correct units definitely matter, and I've seen Tesla make that mistake plenty of times...

Well... Fuel economy (with gasoline) is properly measured in Gallons per Mile, which has units of volume (gallons) per distance (mile), which in metric is m^3 / m, or m^2. So gas mileage is technically measured in square meters. Figure that one out :)
 
Well... Fuel economy (with gasoline) is properly measured in Gallons per Mile, which has units of volume (gallons) per distance (mile), which in metric is m^3 / m, or m^2. So gas mileage is technically measured in square meters. Figure that one out :)

Obligatory XKCD: Droppings

Ok, so what’s the physical interpretation of that number? Is there one?
It turns out there is! If you took all the gas you burned on a trip and stretched it out into a thin tube along your route, 0.1 square millimeters would be the cross-sectional area of that tube.
 
Well... Fuel economy (with gasoline) is properly measured in Gallons per Mile, which has units of volume (gallons) per distance (mile), which in metric is m^3 / m, or m^2. So gas mileage is technically measured in square meters. Figure that one out :)

Imagine the fuel stretched out along the road in the shape of a very long cylinder, and a car that picks the fuel up and burns it as it goes. The fuel economy is the cross-sectional area of the fuel cylinder!

Let's see - 10 liters per 100 km. That's 10/1000 cubic meter of fuel, and 100 000 meters. (10/1000)m[sup]3[/sup]/100000m = 0.1mm[sup]2[/sup]. :biggrin:

*edit* Dang - xkcd/woof already did that :(

*edit 2* There's an error in the final equation in that XKCD post, a "per bird" is missing - email sent :)
 
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