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Autocatalysts and Combustion road vehicles

Their prices have moved together.

Autocatalysts (chemical) and Combustion road vehicles (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: main demand

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Petrol and diesel vehicles are the reason autocatalysts exist, and tighter norms such as India's BS-VI raised metal loadings. The vehicle proxy is a car price index, which tracks pricing rather than output, so monthly moves correlate at -0.15.

  • -0.15 monthly change correlation
  • -0.32 12-month change correlation
  • -1.04 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.