Journalists constantly mixing up kw and kwh

[jasperp]

Am I the only one being annoyed to see that at least half of the articles about EV's contain mistakes about power and energy units ?
It looks like journalists need to get some basic engineering classes !

I constantly read things like:
"Charging at 100kwh", "The car has a 75kw battery", "We charged 50kw in 20min"

How hard can it be to do this right?
-KiloWatt is 1000 watt and a unit of power. Used for the power of a car or the power of a charger.
-KiloWattHour is 1000 watt during one hour. A unit of energy. Used for the size of a battery. Or energy charged or consumed during a certain time.

Or are only engineers annoyed by this ?

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[Porsche-Guru]

How hard can it be to do this right?


Or are only engineers annoyed by this ?

You are right, it annoys me too. One would think it is simple stuff and ‘journalists’ ought to ‘learn the basics’ about stuff they wish to write about !

it is not surprising though... and journalists aren’t the only ones.

The UK government has spent £12,000,000,000 (12 billion GBP) on the smart metering program - and I know of many ministers, civil servants, people in positions of power - they sign off invoices worth £ millions; yet have never seen a electricity or gas meter in their life !
Couldn't spell electricity - but get to decide and spend millions of our (tax payers) money.

And yes, I am a an engineer working in the energy sector and I do get annoyed by this.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Theirs bigger fish for the grammar police to go after.

 

[kort]

Theirs bigger fish for the grammar police to go after.

theirs ????

 

[Throb]

theirs ????

I assume that's the joke. Or maybe not.

 

[O2TheL]

<-- Electrical Engineer. It annoys me too.

However, I also think in general Horsepower and Torque have been confused for decades.

 

[jasperp]

Theirs bigger fish for the grammar police to go after.

Your right, ;-)

Being more a 'numbers-guy' instead of a linguistic person, I am more tolerant for grammar mistakes.
Especially in English texts, because I am not a native English speaker. I probably make many mistakes writing English anyway.

 

[QueenBean]

It's unacceptable, especially for journalists presenting themselves as subject matter experts.

 

[kort]

It's unacceptable, especially for journalists presenting themselves as subject matter experts.

the media is quite poor on getting any coverage correct, regardless of subject matter or inherent biases.

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