Wireless connections are all the rage - and tool makers are getting in on the act. Thanks to advances in LED and battery products, and the fact that the technology is increasingly affordable, for the first time, Auto Express can test work lights that are exclusively cordless.

As with the first cordless power tools, these lamps will improve over time. Still, all our test products offer bright and wide beams. Until interchangeable batteries and fast chargers arrive, battery packs are built in; you simply connect the charger to the unit's socket.

The test

You buy a work lamp to illuminate dark areas, so our first test measured how much light each product threw out.