The word 'horsepower' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the power of an engine, particularly in terms of vehicles or machines. For example, "This car is equipped with a 3.5 liter V6 engine that produces 290 horsepower."
She described how much horsepower Podemos had got from, first, their flat structure, the fact that these circles organise themselves; and, second, having an enemy.
For Hooper, Needham put a 25,000 horsepower rocket engine into a car and "flew" it across a 430ft chasm – without a driver.
Apart from the fourth wheel and the doors, it has a 623cc engine that will muster 33 brake horsepower.
"What is the sprocket horsepower of the Chieftain tank?" he asked the British ambassador.
Above all, it would be a quieter vessel something sailors, mindful of preying submarines, find reassuring.Unfortunately, superconducting power systems are still about five times too weak to generate the 25,000 to 50,000 horsepower required to run a ship.
GE uses sophisticated statistical methods and historical data to decide whether it is a clogged fuel filter or just bad weather that has reduced a locomotive's horsepower.
Now the groundwater is 20 metres down, and he requires a 15-horsepower pump to sluice his green paddy-fields.
When Mr Singh began pumping groundwater in 1973, turning his 14 acres from cotton to paddy, it took a three-horsepower engine to bring it up from 1.5 metres.
The model, a cross between a luxury station wagon and an SUV, was also shown as a diesel hybrid with a 250-horsepower engine and 50-kilowatt electric motor capable of 0-100km/h 0-100km/hconds whine consuming no more than 7.8 litres per 100km—20% less than a comparable diesel model.Hydrogen-powered vehicles would, of course, be the cleanest form of transport, eliminating harmful emissions.
With a two-cylinder, 30-horsepower, rear-mounted engine and four doors it is aimed at those trading up from scooters and three-wheelers.
When Volvo rolls out its first commercial flywheel hybrid, around 2015, its KERS should be capable of providing an 80-horsepower boost when overtaking, like in Formula 1 .Flywheels could be a cheap way to make cars more fuel-efficient".Further down the line, radical flywheel designs could provide even more additional oomph.
