Last year, the U.S. Geological Survey proposed putting 50 minerals on a list of those critical to U.S. national security, two of them being palladium and platinum, both crucial to vehicle catalytic ...

Motorists across the U.S. are increasingly being met with a roaring noise when they turn on the ignition due to surging thefts of catalytic converters, law enforcement officials say. The devices look ...

It took only a few minutes, late at night, as Harvey Briggs was asleep in his suburban Madison, Wisconsin home. Without a garage, he had a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser parked in his driveway, ...

Catalytic converters are integrated into the exhaust systems of cars to convert, or turn, the harmful gasses and pollutants from the engine exhaust system into a less toxic state. Catalytic converters ...

Cars making loud noises are never a good sign and are a particular hassle when the cause of the noise is a missing catalytic converter. Catalytic converters are regularly targeted car parts, sometimes ...

Hundreds of motorists have fallen victim to thieves stealing catalytic converters from their cars to take advantage of the soaring price of metals. The devices, which reduce engine pollution, contain ...

In the middle of the night, thieves crawl under a row of vans. One by one, they saw off the bulbous metal pollution control devices called catalytic converters. They wrap up in minutes and leave with ...

Thieves target catalytic converters because they contain extremely valuable metals like platinum, palladium and rhodium. Some of those metals, which are used to regulate and cleanse the exhaust flow, ...

As the value of the precious metals found inside catalytic converters steadily falls, so too is the number of police reports being filed across Canada about the automotive parts being stolen.