Alot of 12V powered USB chargers use a linear regulator. They turn the excess voltage into heat. Pull 2A through one and it will be producing 18W of heat at 14V input. Get one that uses a switchmode supply to stepdown the voltage instead.
Get 1 of these instead, I have 3 and they work really well
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