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What is it in other languages?
Watts (named after James Watt, who ironically was the one who came up with the unit of horsepower)
Interesting, so if you when to buy a car outside of the US, it would be in watts? Instead of saying this car has 250 horse power you would say this car has 186kW?
In the US we do use Watts, but I think most people would associate Watts with electrical power not gas engine power. But it appears you can convert between them fairly easily.
Yes ICE powered vehicles are rated in kW.