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Combustion road vehicles and EPDM

Their prices have moved together.

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

How they are linked

1. Price link: end use

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Door seals, window channels and hoses in cars are the largest EPDM use. The vehicle price proxy does not move with the rubber proxy, 0.03 monthly, because car prices follow model cycles.

  • 0.03 monthly change correlation
  • 0.05 12-month change correlation
  • 0.87 fitted elasticity

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