How to Use kilowatt in a Sentence

kilowatt

noun

• Over the last few months, I’ve been charged rates as low as 8 cents and as high as 16 cents per kilowatt hour.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 Dec. 2022
• The Lyriq is equipped to handle DC fast-charging of up to 190 kilowatts.
  — Michael Simari, Car and Driver, 25 May 2023
• This compares to 13 cents per kilowatt hour in the United States.
  — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Spring and summer prices have been about 8 cents per kilowatt hour.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• The new law will change the value of the credit to wholesale rates, which are about 5 cents less per kilowatt hour.
  — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2023
• The biggest ion thrusters in space are only about 4 1/2 kilowatts.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2018
• In the distant reaches of the asteroid belt, that will drop to 2 kilowatts.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2023
• Five years ago, the lowest bid came in at 7 rupees, or 11 cents, per kilowatt-hour.
  — Geeta Anand, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• All this draws 23 kilowatts of power — for a single chip!
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024
• For most of the past decade, $100 per kilowatt-hour (at the battery pack level, not the slightly lower cell cost) was thought to be the Holy Grail.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
• The Kona's battery pack boasts 4.0 kilowatt-hours more than the Chevy's yet has only six more battery cells to do so.
  — Car and Driver, 18 Apr. 2020
• Economies of scale are also likely to play out in any pathway to 5¢ per kilowatt.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 18 Feb. 2018
• Drivers are assessed a fee of 22 cents per kilowatt hour.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• That’s double the average cost in the United States of 13.19 cents per kilowatt-hour.
  — Greta Moran, Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2020
• The battery used in that vehicle ran around $1,000 a kilowatt-hour.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
• Called the Arma, the shuttle is powered by a 33 kilowatt-hour battery pack that can be charged in five to eight hours.
  — Brent Snavely, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2017
• Rawlinson said that his vision over the next few years is to get to five miles per kilowatt-hour, which would be a feat.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2020
• By then, Tesla’s battery costs should be down to $125 per kilowatt-hour.
  — The Economist, 25 Sep. 2017
• Cost to operate at 10 cents per kilowatt-hour is 2 cents per mile.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• Hydro power is cheap, as low as 2 cents a kilowatt hour.
  — Dale Kasler, sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• The charging rate would start at 50 cents per kilowatt hour and couldn’t rise without city approval.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
• Enter Email Sign Up Prior to this year, summer rates for the last three years stood around 8 to 9 cents per kilowatt hour.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• Cars and SUVs are built with metal and data, kilowatts and torque.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
• Now that rate is increasing to $0.36 per kilowatt hour.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2023
• User rates for the new stations are 25 cents per kilowatt/hour for the first two hours, and $1 per kilowatt/hour thereafter.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2022
• Some states require electricity to be resold at a price per minute rather than by the kilowatt.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2023
• The top rate for electricity is more than 40 cents per kilowatt hour, which equates to nearly $12 per therm of heat.
  — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• And the whole thing will be powered by the 9.9 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof, with a battery backup for nighttime living.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 16 June 2017
• One is to do the new project the other one is to subsidize, or purchase kilowatt hours from, an existing plant.
  — Ryan Maye Handy, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
• Batteries are getting to less than $100 per kilowatt hour.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024