Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
Dail Éireann — 2023-04-18
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Richard O'Donoghue (IND), Limerick County

A single 1,000 lb EV battery takes about 5,000 lb of raw material to manufacture.
To transition just our passenger cars to EVs, we need to mine more material over the next 30 years than we have ever mined in human history.

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Sitting date: 2023-04-18