Although many cars now ship with a receptacle labeled 12 V with a 120 W maximum and no cigarette lighter in sight, more and more cars are shipping with USB-A and USB-C ports instead. But what ...

But if you are dealing with smaller devices, like a dash cam, there’s no need for hardwiring, and the cigarette lighter socket can be used instead. Which Can You Plug Into The Lighter Socket? Besides ...

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

And depending on your own age, you might know that as the cigarette lighter port. Whereas this thing used to have a single purpose — lighting cigars and cigarettes via hot coil — there are ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Cigarette lighter jacks in cars may soon go the way of whitewalls and cassette decks. Korean automaker Hyundai plans to phase-out including cigarette lighter power jacks in ...

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Today, they’ll go after something as modest as a cigarette lighter. Zippo has been making flip-top pocket lighters at the same factory in Bradford, Pa. for 75 years – 50,000 of them a day last ...