TORQUE VS POWER

“Power is how fast your car hits a wall at full throttle; torque is how far it moves the wall after impact,” is one description of the two units I recently heard. Unfortunately, this explanation is not entirely accurate, but it is a way of making sense of the concepts in simple terms. Although car fanatics grow up with these engine performance indicators, few understand their meaning or how they are measured. With this article, we intend to settle the confusion.

LET’S TORQUE

The idea of force in a straight line is an easy concept to grasp. Ever pushed a vehicle that ran out of fuel? You have to exert a force on the vehicle to move ) and you know what force (80 x 9,81 = 784,8 N) you are exerting on the measuring device.