Shouldn’t I be able to use my cigarette lighter to plug in 12v stuff? All cigarette lighter sockets are also 12v sockets, which means that you should be able to plug in a cigarette lighter ...

If you need to charge a car full of gadgets at once, more expensive adapters with multiple ports are available, but these tend to be larger and have a cable to plug into the 12V socket.

USB charging ports and Bluetooth are quickly becoming par for the course on most new cars, but step back in time just a few years and it’s a very different story. Less than a decade ago, these ...