All cigarette lighter sockets are also 12v sockets, which means that you should be able to plug in a cigarette lighter ...

But, while it’s tempting to grab a cable and use the USB port, you might well find your smartphone battery ... USB chargers tend to deliver 5V, the 12V available from the lighter socket means ...

In the past, it was rarely used for anything other than powering the onboard cigarette lighter ... disconnect the car’s battery. If the socket is clean, but your charger still doesn’t work ...

The Freeplay FreeCharge 12V ($32.00 direct) device charger comes from the same ... Using the universal 12-volt standard and a cigarette-lighter type port, the device has a hand crank to transfer ...

I have a Galaxy Note, which is a real power glutton - running it at all while it is charging off the cigarette lighter actually causes the battery to ... the included AC charger, which is 1A.

And depending on your own age, you might know that as the cigarette lighter port ... gets converted to fairly uniform DC to charge the battery, and remains steady regardless of the alternator ...

It's a small cylindrical widget which plugs in the cigarette lighter socket (are they still called cigarette lighter sockets?) and turns it into a pair of USB charging slots. Regular readers will ...