At least in the United States, cigarette lighters began to show up as standard equipment in cars sometime around 1925–1926, and by 1928, the Connecticut Automotive Specialty Company in Bridgeport ...

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

Park this Auto LED flashlight by Coast in your car’s cigarette lighter, and it stands at the ready whenever you need to shine some light on the subject. It sucks power from that accessory outlet, ...

The world's fifth-largest auto maker said it was “the first car company in the world” to make this change following a domestic survey that showed many drivers used the lighter jack to charge mobile ...

• Some older vehicles also came from the factory with mobile phones. • Whereas manual transmissions used to be popular in the past, automatic ones are currently in demand. Vehicles have gone through a ...

With the advance of technology, many in-car accessories have become obsolete; like the cassette player that has completely disappeared from the automotive industry. The CD player will most likely ...

I can't turn on the radio or adjust the in my Ford Transit as the audio button on the touch screen is greyed out. It did it once before and was advised to take the positive lead off the battery and ...

If you don’t smoke and you have no idea what to do with your car’s cigarette lighter outlet — that big circular hole in the center console — then do this: turn it into a USB-C charging port! Right now ...

SEOUL -- Hyundai Motor (IW 1000/56) said Thursday it would stop putting cigarette lighter sockets in cars made for the domestic market in favor of a USB power point. The South Korean auto giant said ...