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		eru on April 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla is a Battery Company Couldn't you just measure the capacity in directly in Watts instead of Watt hours / year?

mikeash on April 2, 2015 [–]

Certainly, and you could measure battery capacity in joules, and... well, for some reason we've standardized on weird units for these things.

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