Struggling Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt has paid a tax bill of more than $27 million, a company spokesman told dpa on Monday. The spokesman added that Northvolt was in continuing talks on further funding for its operations. The company recently announced it would cut its staff complement by around 1,600 workers and has halted a number of plans to expand its operations. The focus will now be on series production of battery cells in the Northvolt Ett plant in Skellefteå in northern Sweden, the first and only large-scale factory for battery cells owned by a European company to go into p…