Charging Macbook Air from car charger

[dcs.79c]

Based on my research, using a cigarette lighter adapter to charge an Air is not recommended. The car's circuit breakers might trip or the adapter itself would overheat.
I did read about DC to AC to DC inverters.
What about a Mophie? It probably wouldn't charge the battery, but would maintain the charge.
What does Apple recommend?

 

[RadDave]

Based on my research, using a cigarette lighter adapter to charge an Air is not recommended. The car's circuit breakers might trip or the adapter itself would overheat.
I did read about DC to AC to DC inverters.
What about a Mophie? It probably wouldn't charge the battery, but would maintain the charge.
What does Apple recommend?

Personally, I don't trust the lighter adapters for charging even iDevices - my wife's phone blew a few fuses on my previous car - I bought her a small battery pack that can charge her new iPhone or iPad Mini at least twice while in the car. SO, that would not be an option for me.

But, there are more powerful battery packs that can charge a laptop - keep in mind the wattage needed (my MBPro has a 60 W charger) - there was a previous thread from a poster asking about the BatteryBox (shown below) that would serve your needs - not cheap (believe about $200) - assume that you've been googling similar products?

As to Apple's recommendation, this forum is not supported by Apple, so unless you join one w/ Apple technicians responding or visit an Apple store to ask your question, I cannot address your query - maybe others can? Let us know what you decide - good luck in your selection. Dave

P.S. I have a battery pack for my iPad, but have not used one w/ my laptop, so the above is not a personal recommendation for the product mentioned.
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[chscag]

Personally, I don't trust the lighter adapters for charging even iDevices - my wife's phone blew a few fuses on my previous car - I bought her a small battery pack that can charge her new iPhone or iPad Mini at least twice while in the car. SO, that would not be an option for me.

I haven't had any problems charging our iPhones from both of our cars, however, I would not trust charging our iPad which requires more current. Most auto cigar lighter circuits use at least a 5 amp fuse and usually higher than that. If your wife's iPhone was blowing the fuse there may have been another load on the circuit at the same time.

 

[RadDave]

I haven't had any problems charging our iPhones from both of our cars, however, I would not trust charging our iPad which requires more current. Most auto cigar lighter circuits use at least a 5 amp fuse and usually higher than that. If your wife's iPhone was blowing the fuse there may have been another load on the circuit at the same time.

Well, that's what I thought but now that you mentioned the above, she charged her pre-iPhone 6 and I believe her iPad Mini, so might have been the issue? However, the battery
pack (below) has worked out well (as long as she remembers to charge it!) - believe that I bought this 'on sale' from those MacForums ads, a good deal as I recall - Dave
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[pm-r]

Just doing a google search on the posted subject sure provides a lot of choices and a lot with user's comments. Sure not a new topic without proper answers and even some recent products listed:
https://www.google.ca/search?client...&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=3PCOVbOEKOiV8Qe0q4GQAw