What is horsepower and torque and how do they relate to a car being fast or a truck having a towing capacity?
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Fun fact: Horsepower is *not* the power of 1 horse. On average a horse actually generates somewhere about 15HP max.
It’s a metric coined by the engineer James Watt as a deliberately misleading marketing technique to make engines sound more powerful than they actually were – at a time when horse and carriage was known and trusted, not to mention actually faster and more efficient.
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