Lithium Werks, a Dutch battery company, will invest €1.6bn to build a factory in China, in a deal signed during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday.
Lithium Werks, which was founded this year by Kees Koolen, former chief executive of Booking.com, said the 60 hectare factory will produce 8 gigawatt-hours of batteries a year, enough to power hundreds of thousands of vehicles.