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I to was frustrated with the "unit watts out" voodoo. If you want to know the torque specs for Dewalt drills go to a UK website such as toolstop.co.uk. Over there they don't use that UWO mess. You will have to convert from Nm (Newton Meters) to pound inch. I use an on-line conversion website. The DC980L: http://www.toolstop.co.uk/dewalt-dcd980l2-18v-xr-li-ion-premium-3-speed-xrp-drill-driver-2-x-3ah-batteries-p15708 is listed as as having 55Nm or 486.79 inch pounds of torque. I'm no engineer, but my guess is that DeWalt builds their transmissions to maximize whatever torque the motor produces to perform the work as efficiently as possible. It obviously works. I just wish they would just state as much instead of spewing out some cryptic formulated number. At the end of the day I went with Bosch as the majority of my corded tools are Bosch. I have been extremely satisfied with the Bosch cordless tools. The new 20v and 12v DeWalts look really nice though. But I am already neck deep in 12v Bosch as well.