Convert kilowatt to horsepower (mechanical)
1 kW = 1.34102209 hp
1 kW = 1.341 hp
1 kW in every power unit
| nanowatt | 1,000,000,000,000 nW |
| erg per second | 10,000,000,000 erg/s |
| microwatt | 1,000,000,000 μW |
| milliwatt | 1,000,000 mW |
| foot pound-force per minute | 44,254 ft·lbf/min |
| BTU per hour | 3,412.1 BTU/h |
| watt | 1,000 W |
| kilocalorie per hour | 859.85 kcal/h |
| foot pound-force per second | 737.56 ft·lbf/s |
| thousand BTU per hour | 3.4121 MBH |
| metric horsepower | 1.3596 PS |
| horsepower (mechanical) | 1.341 hp |
| electrical horsepower | 1.3405 hp (elec) |
| kilowatt | 1 kW |
| ton of refrigeration | 0.28435 ton |
| boiler horsepower | 0.10194 bhp |
| million BTU per hour | 0.0034121 MMBTU/h |
| megawatt | 0.001 MW |
| gigawatt | 0.000001 GW |
| terawatt | 1.0000e-09 TW |
| solar luminosity | 2.6123e-24 Lsun |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 1.34102209 to go from kilowatt to horsepower (mechanical), or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (W) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? horsepower (mechanical) to kilowatt — 1 hp = 0.7456998716 kW.
kilowatt to horsepower (mechanical) — common values
| 1 kW | 1.3410221 hp |
| 2 kW | 2.6820442 hp |
| 3 kW | 4.0230663 hp |
| 5 kW | 6.7051104 hp |
| 10 kW | 13.410221 hp |
| 15 kW | 20.115331 hp |
| 20 kW | 26.820442 hp |
| 25 kW | 33.525552 hp |
| 50 kW | 67.051104 hp |
| 75 kW | 100.57666 hp |
| 100 kW | 134.10221 hp |
| 250 kW | 335.25552 hp |
| 500 kW | 670.51104 hp |
| 1000 kW | 1,341.0221 hp |