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That's some extremely dishonest maths, or maybe gaslighting through statistics would be a better description.

To say that growth is slowing because it grew by 100% one year, 70% the next and 50% the year after is utterly incorrect and either stupid or a lie.

You simply can not ongoingly double demand every year for anything. If the entire world's rice demand was one single bowl of rice, then two bowls the next year, then four... within a few more years of 100% growth the demand for rice would be heavier than the entire planet (literally - feel free to do.the maths).

If your demand doubles one year then 'only' goes up by 70% the next year and 'only' 50% the year after, the increased demand in terms of absolute amount of extra demand is still increasing each year.

Ongoing exponential growth is literally mathematically impossible, let alone something we should somehow expect or be disappointed not to have!

Put another way, let's say 10% of new vehicle sales were EVs one year. At 100% growth it would be 20% in one year, 40% in two years, 80% in three years, and after four years demand would have to be more than the entire vehicle market. In another four years the entire world's vehicle fleet would have to be replaced more than once in a year, and in another four years everyone would need to be buying many many cars every year, and in a further few years there literally wouldn't be enough material in the whole galaxy to produce enough to supply demand.

I'm not sure if you were suffering from a genuine lack of mathematical understanding or you were trying to dishonestly downramp, but either way I hope it has been cleared up.