Koolatron 14-Quart Soft-Sided Electric Travel Cooler, Dark Grey

• Soft-sided electric travel cooler with cigarette-lighter car plug-in
• Adjustable shoulder strap; external zippered pocket for storage
• Cools to 16.5°C (30°F) below ambient temperature;
• Holds 14 quarts or up to twenty 12-ounce cans; holds 2-liter bottles upright
• Measures 10 by 11 by 13.5 inches; weighs 4 pounds

I use this in my car for drinks or to keep small items of food cold on the way home from long trips to Costco, etc. It's durable, has many pockets, and works great. If you have more room in your vehicle and need more "cold storage" for your trips, get the bigger one.

The only drawback, and I assume this is for all of these type devices, is if you leave it plugged in your car/boat, etc. for long periods of time while your vehicle is OFF, it will drain your battery fairly fast. The longest I've left it plugged in while my car was off was about 3 hours. But I did this repeatedly and it eventually caused the premature death of my car battery in Dec 07.

HOWEVER, THIS said, I have an 05' mid-size SUV and this was the original battery so that also may have contributed.

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After receiving this product I found it defective. Because I was moving and VERY short on time oh... and quite handy, I decided to open it up and see if I could do the repair by myself. I found the cheap internal construction to be the issue and cleared the fan from rubbing by modifying the hard foam frame a bit which was causing the fan to rub and sounded like a playing card close-pinned to a bicycle wheel when it ran. This caused it not to get cold obviously. I managed the repairs only to find that on the road, the current draw was very high on my TDI VWs little battery and it took some time for the device to cool down internally but it did within about an hour. On my long driving trip from LA to Wisconsin I eventuallyjust unplugged it and bought some ice and threw it in.

The device would have possibly been fine I think in a larger car with a stronger alternator and battery BTW. I also bought the battery saver. This did a bit better but I found it heated up the cabin as well as the cooler did by itself just too much on hot days in the summer. Might have worked better in the winter or somehow putting it up on my roof rack rather than having it inside a little bug with two people and a dog. I would not recommend this or any device like it for a small car as configured.

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The cooler won't get anything cold mine only went down to 50 (in a 70 degree room) and it took many hoursto get there with anything in it.(It was blowing 46 degree air after 2 hours).And it warms up quickly 14 degrees in only an hour and 1/2.

Add to that a continuous whir noise, so you don't want to bring it into your motel room and leave it plugged it and the battery load which occurs if you leave it in the car overnight, this is a limited use device (in my humble opinion).

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This arrived yesterday and I did a "dry run" with it.First off, I had no clue, for some odd reason, that it was also a heated device.So, imagine my surprise during the first test when the inside was getting hot, lol.I then read further and found that if one flips it to the blue side, it cools, the red side is for heat.I got an adapter since I will not be using it in a vehicle.At any rate, we did as instructed and gave it a test empty. It was cold within about ten to fifteen minutes.There are plenty of pockets and I was afraid they wouldn't get cold but they did.For the price and with Amazon Prime, I just couldn't pass this one up. It has much more room than the hard sided one that I also looked at. Now, I'm going to really use this soon when I camp and I might do an additional review at that time.As far as I can tell, I think this was an excellent purchase and would recommend it highly.

OK, I've now officially tested this product during an exceptionally hot and humid weekend of camping and it worked great.What I did, since I knew that it was going to be super hot with very high humidity, was follow the instructions, or recommendation, of another reviewer.I put a hard ice pack in the bottom and also, a Gator Ade bottle, with frozen water, in the unit.I just used this for Gator Ade as it is just too hot to eat, lol, and it worked fine.I made sure to keep it in the shade at all times.When I got home, the bottle filled with ice, still was pretty frozen.It wasn't totally frozen, of course, but, it did still have a huge chunk of ice within.I think this is going to work just fine.Plus, it wasn't loud at all. I literally had to put my hand by the fan to make sure it was running. I give this a huge thumbs up and would recommend to others.Come fall, I probably won't do the ice pack method but, with the humidity we have been having, it would have been silly not to use the ice too.My Gator Ade was actually too cold.I also left said drink out and it got warm, of course. I then put it back in the cooler and it was super cold within about an hour or a bit more.I hope this helps others. Oh, I almost forgot to mention something. Since my van is a 1997 and the cig lighter hasn't worked in years, I bought that adapter deal that turns it into an electric device. That worked fine.Just be careful as the power pack deal gets pretty hot. I literally hung mine over a box fan that I took along and, obviously, it kept it cool.

The Koolatron does not provide any additional cooling capacity or ability to keep cool beyond what any other insulated bag would do, and is not as cold as a bag that has had a frozen ice pack added to it.And the manufacturer recommends that it not be plugged in for more than 4 hours at a time, which eliminates use as a day-long cooling container.I do not believe the capability of this container warrants the expense.