A VANDAL has been filmed accidentally setting himself alight while trying to start a car fire. Footage shows the man holding ...

Depending on the age of your car, it might contain a round 12 V ... And depending on your own age, you might know that as the cigarette lighter port. Whereas this thing used to have a single ...

Car lighter sockets were not originally intended ... 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 ...

It didn't occur to me until some time after I bought it, but this is the direct ancestor of the disposable plastic cigarette lighter. Apart from being made of silver, it works in nearly the same way.

Buying a USB port for a standard automotive, 12-volt cigarette lighter is cheap, easy to install and gets the job done, as you can see here in my lovely Lincoln Continental. (Grabs phone ...

A VANDAL has been filmed accidentally setting himself alight while trying to start a car fire. Footage shows the man holding a cigarette lighter and a jerry can approaching a vehicle on a ...