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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Retric on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:07PM (#32101469)
If you’re describing the W output though you could be describing the average [charge in each battery (W*h) X the number of batteries / time period] . That’s the actual W output of the factory as actual energy.

Capacity created per time period is a different unit created as a discrete entity with each battery but having no instantaneous value.

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Sniffnoy on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:41PM (#32199369)
That's not what a unit is. A unit is just a standard against with other quantities sharing the same dimension can be measured. Anything with dimensions of energy/time can be measured in Watts, not just instantaneous power in the usual sense. Whether comparing two such quantities is meaningful may, as you point out, be another matter, but they can still be expressed in Watts.
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