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Energy by distance units

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Summary of changes​

A new ENERGY_DISTANCE device class for representing energy per distance is now available for number and sensor entities, together with automatic unit conversion based on the unit system. This new device class can be used, for example, on entities that show the amount of electric energy consumed by an electric car. A corresponding UnitOfEnergyDistance unit enumerator, and EnergyDistanceConverter converter class have been added to support the new device class.

The following units are available:

  • kWh/100km
  • mi/kWh
  • km/kWh

More details can be found in the Number documentation and Sensor documentation

Inverse Units​

Implementing EnergyDistanceConverter has also resulted in support for inverse units in BaseUnitConverter. This simplifies adding new units that are inverses of one another, e.g., kWh/100km and km/kWh.