Across the United States, a crucial piece of emissions equipment has quietly turned into one of the hottest targets for organized theft. The catalytic converter, a metal canister most drivers never ...

Torque converters serve as the crucial link between traditional automatic transmissions and a car's engine. If you're not up to speed on how torque converters work, here are the basics: A torque ...

Modern vehicles and the internal combustion engines that power them — well, most of them, that is — have come a long way in recent decades. From inefficient carburetor systems to fuel injection and, ...

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 ...

Johnny Wactor, an actor who formerly starred in “General Hospital,” caught people in the act of stealing the catalytic converter from his car Saturday. Tragically, one of the thieves, according to ...

The Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) is advocating Congress and state legislatures to pass stronger laws to help curb catalytic converter theft while supporting the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Eyewitness News ABC7 NY / YouTube. If you've ever wondered what it takes to finally interrupt a catalytic converter ...

Cars are major greenhouse gas emitters. Every year, vehicles worldwide pump out millions of tons of CO2, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and a range of other gasses that contribute to global warming ...

The precious metals, such as platinum, palladium and rhodium, in catalytic converters make the vehicle devices attractive to thieves, but University of Central Florida researchers are working to ...

A phase converter provides three-phase power from a single-phase source. Old-style mechanical converters use a hybrid motor/generator, while electronic converters use capacitors and other devices to ...