Missed staff payments and an Australian police investigation – Scale Facilitation’s electric vehicle battery-making ambitions face serious hurdles
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The Australian offices of Scale Facilitation, the company in charge of resurrecting the UK’s electric vehicle battery-making aspirations, were unusually quiet when the federal police used a search warrant to access its financial systems.
On 23 June, many employees at the Geelong premises, south-west of Melbourne, had the day off. The company had fallen behind in staff payments and offered several days off as a gesture of goodwill.
