chevaux

My Francophile artist dad, who was a terrible driver, had a sky blue deux chevaux.

France has a long tradition of flimsy lightweight vehicles (Deux Chevaux etc) for local use, this is a logical extension of this cultural norm.

I don't even know how long I confused the pronunciation of cheveux (hair) and chevaux (horses) and I used to butcher the pronunciation of l'eau (water; it sounds like 'low' not 'loo').

An average human can wear two such skates at a time, thus providing deux chevaux of power, 1500 W, which is 180 N (the weight of 18 kg) at 30 km/hour or 1100 N at 5 km/hour, plenty of power to burn rubber.

Pcheval is an excellent metaphor, because the biggest problem I see beginners have is that instead of learning how horses think, they first try to hold them to the standards of human thought, and then, when that predictably fails, proceed to attempt to wrangle them as if they were horribly deficient humans: p-chevaux.

No it wasn't because from the start these were called "chevaux fiscaux" and nobody was mistaken the 2 kinds of horsepower.

The quintessential example is "cheval" (horse) which becomes "chevaux" (horses), which is the rule they're following (or being cute about).

In french, it is pronounced "2 chevaux", as in "2 horses" (horsepower), abbreviated "deuche", or "dodoche"

"CV" is for "Chevaux" (horses) but we're talking "tax horses", a calculation used for a taxation system where more powerful vehicles cost more.

No it wasn't because from the start these were called "chevaux fiscaux" and nobody was mistaken the 2 kinds of horsepower.

The quintessential example is "cheval" (horse) which becomes "chevaux" (horses), which is the rule they're following (or being cute about).

In french, it is pronounced "2 chevaux", as in "2 horses" (horsepower), abbreviated "deuche", or "dodoche"

"CV" is for "Chevaux" (horses) but we're talking "tax horses", a calculation used for a taxation system where more powerful vehicles cost more.