In the past, it was rarely used for anything other than powering the onboard cigarette lighter; today, it’s an indispensable source of power for countless electronics, including our smartphones.

A power inverter turns your car into a rolling outlet. That’s useful when you travel, camp, work out of a truck, or ride out ...

Depending on the age of your car, it might contain a round 12 V power outlet in the dash, or possibly in the elbow compartment. And depending on your own age, you might know that as the cigarette ...

There are too few manufacturers of power sockets available at hardware stores, according to Klavs Larsen from Funen, who now ...