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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