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They wont run anything else that pulls more amps, like an inverter to run a laptop. And that has been a problem: on some road trips, I often will sit in the pax seat and work on the laptop while another drives, and when the battery in the laptop runs out, we have to pull over somewhere, I have to get out, plug the inverter in back in the cargo area, and then run the laptop wire over the back seat to the right front pax seat. I find the lack of a 12volt power outlet in the front or a 110 volt ac outlet, common in some cars of this price point and calibre (my 2006 ford escape hybrid had a front AC outlet) really annoying.
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