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I don't understand why you thought a surge from more than a decade and a half ago would be proof of much of anything about the modern energy market. Technology has changed a lot. Theres a reason why the all the globes growth last year came from clean energy. Sorry about the bulverism. I will refrain from further assumptions about you.
I did not find it difficult for either europe or china. As you'll see it's mostly BEVs in both markets. America is once again the odd market out. You really shouldn't be using american stats as representative of anywhere else. Although there is a lot of variation between markets, with some having a lot of hybrids and others being completely dominated by BEVs.
This a particularly poor analogy. It's the nature of politics to blunt growth curves. In technology the kind of growth curve I'm talking about is the norm with the only notable exceptions being when a tech got cockblocked partway by an even better tech. Any if the curve ends because we find something even better than gas or electricity I'll be plum happy to eat salt on that one.
People anticipated the crunch and dug more lithium mines to meet expected demand. In fact supply increased so much that in spite of sky rocketing demand prices have continued to fall.
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