Palladium in electronics and EV sI was looking online trying to research how much total Palladium is used in the computer chips of an electric vehicle. Because electric vehicles don't have catalytic converter's people thinks there's no palladium in an electric vehicle. There's palladium in computer chips and electronics of which electric vehicles have hundreds or thousands of computer chips in them. I haven't found the research online that I'm looking for yet but I feel electric vehicles contain 1/2 to 1 g of palladium just in their chips. Below is a little blurb from one article I found while doing research.
To put some more numbers on it, the EPA states that for every 1 million cell phones recycled we can get these amounts of precious metals:
- 35,274 pounds of copper
- 772 pounds of silver
- 75 pounds of gold
- 33 pounds of palladium