Problems with whitespace in maven home path on Windows

[leozilla]

When executing:

mvn gatling:execute

on a maven project created via the archetype, it always fails with:

[INFO] --- gatling-maven-plugin:2.2.0:execute (default-cli) @ perf-bench --- Error: Could not find or load main class Files\\Maven\\bin\\m2.conf

Running "Engine.scala" from my IDE (IntelliJ) works.
I guess the problem is that the gatling-maven-plugin does not correctly handle whitespaces in the maven home dir. Could this be the problem?

Windows: 7
Gatling: 2.2.2
Gatling plugin: 2.2.0
Scala: 2.11.7
Maven install Dir: C:\Program Files\Maven
Maven version: 3.3.9
JDK: 1.8.0_91
pom.zip