Vehicles & Machinery (vehicles, base price $25,000) is finished vehicles and heavy machinery — supplied by automobiles and defense, demanded by logistics, energy, agriculture, and retail.
Market behaviour
Prices blend 75% global supply/demand with 25% regional pressure and drift toward equilibrium at 6% per turn. Shortages compress downstream margins logarithmically; surpluses hand sellers a premium on the same curve.
Who supplies it
Sectors that produce Vehicles & Machinery as output, with per-revenue supply rates:
- Automobiles — 50% of sector revenue
- Defense — 20% of sector revenue
Who demands it
Sectors that consume Vehicles & Machinery as an input, with per-revenue demand rates:
- Logistics — 20% of sector revenue
- Extraction & Mining — 15% of sector revenue
- Energy — 10% of sector revenue
- Chemical Industries — 10% of sector revenue
- Agriculture — 10% of sector revenue
- Construction — 10% of sector revenue
- Retail — 8% of sector revenue
- Defense — 3% of sector revenue
- Healthcare — 3% of sector revenue
Live distribution
Per-country totals below are pulled live from the current turn's market snapshot. Countries with positive net are exporters on balance; negative nets are importers.