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.

So there you have it, the slight adjustments in the 12V-2×6 power connector setup have the problem licked. Of course, there’s no guarantee that entirely new and equally disastrous issues won ...