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Autocatalysts and Electric and hybrid vehicles

Their prices have moved together.

Autocatalysts (chemical) and Electric and hybrid vehicles (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: demand threat

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Battery EVs need no exhaust catalyst, so their rising share erodes long-term platinum group metal demand, while hybrids still use catalysts. The EV proxy is the same car price index as for combustion vehicles, so its statistics cannot separate the two.

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

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