Why are car batteries measured in WattHour (kWh) but phone batteries are measured in AmpHour (mah)?

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Edit: I am talking about EVs

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Car starter batteries are measured in Ah.

Phone batteries are measured in mAh (which is, you know, just 0.001 Ah – because phone batteries are ridiculous small in comparison)

Electrical car batteries are measured in Ah too. Because batteries always are. But the data is *presented* to the user as kWh, because that is the unit that your power meter in your house measures your usage with; it’s used on electrical cars because it avoids confusion and makes it easier to correlate cost of driving to cost of charging.

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