ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Horsepower-hour

Okay kiddo, do you know what horsepower and a battery are? Horsepower is a way to measure how powerful an engine or motor is, and a battery is something that stores energy.

Now, imagine you have a toy car with a motor that is powered by a battery. The battery has a certain amount of energy stored in it, which is measured in something called watt-hours. But sometimes people like to use horsepower instead to talk about how much work that energy can do.

A horsepower-hour is when you use one horsepower of energy for one hour. So, let's say you have a battery that can give your toy car one horsepower for one hour, that would be one horsepower-hour. It's like the car used the power of one horse for one hour to keep it moving.

Basically, horsepower-hour is just a way to talk about how much energy is stored in a battery and how much work it can do over a certain amount of time - like how many miles a car can drive on a full tank of gas.