A car's 12V socket can power so many electronics and accessories. But there are still a few things you shouldn't attempt to ...

At least in the United States, cigarette lighters began to show up as standard equipment in cars sometime around 1925–1926, and by 1928, the Connecticut Automotive Specialty Company in Bridgeport ...

Cigarette lighters in cars have come a long way since their inception. Introduced in the 1920s, these tiny devices have ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From a practical and safety standpoint, if you use your phone in the car a considerable amount of ...

Those Little Tree air-fresheners that hang from your car's rear-view mirror have been around for many decades (as we saw in "Repo Man," you'll find one in every car, kid), and one might think that ...

Park this Auto LED flashlight by Coast in your car’s cigarette lighter, and it stands at the ready whenever you need to shine some light on the subject. It sucks power from that accessory outlet, ...

Sometimes we forget how many things we can do with a simple oscilloscope. In this video [Ben] uses one that Tektronix lent him to measure his DeLorean engine RPM. By checking the car main ~12V voltage ...

I can't turn on the radio or adjust the in my Ford Transit as the audio button on the touch screen is greyed out. It did it once before and was advised to take the positive lead off the battery and ...

Hyundai Motor said Thursday it would stop putting cigarette lighter sockets in cars made for the domestic market in favour of a USB power point. The South Korean auto giant said its decision would ...