To a thief, it is a pod of precious metal worth nearly $200 on the black market. Bulging in the exhaust system like a rabbit deep in the belly of a boa, the catalytic converter cleans engine fumes ...

In a video seen by the BBC, a criminal gang stole a catalytic converter in under three minutes in broad daylight. The prices of certain precious metals have skyrocketed in the last 18 months - pal ...

Thieves are stealing the part of vehicle exhausts that clean up emissions, because they are made using valuable metals like ...

The popular mechanic Scotty Kilmer has urged Brits to keep a particularly expensive item safe from criminals, sharing the ...

Under extreme heat, precious metals in a honeycomb structure catalyze the chemical reactions; they make today’s vehicles dramatically cleaner than older vehicles. Catalytic converters can be ...

Catalytic converters, which convert engine pollutants ... converter thefts have massively increased as the market for the their precious metals, including trace amounts of palladium, rhodium ...

Chemists have learned how to use catalysts to speed up the reactions that break down car exhaust. If your family’s car runs on gasoline, it has a device called a catalytic converter. Inside this ...