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Ah, here we go.
https://www.reuters.com/article/sponsored/copper-electric-vehicle
Its 11% of current copper demand. Each full EV takes about 80kg of copper. There's plenty of copper to go around though, and given that its infinitely recyclable it shouldn't be such a big deal (other than destroying the earth to get it out of the ground)
Even so, such a massive commodity shift.