Apple sued for poaching car battery engineers

Apple has been sued by electric car battery maker A123 Systems for poaching five of its employees to help set up a large scale battery division.Apple “embarked on an aggressive campaign” to poach employees from A123 to set up a battery division in June last year, the company said in a suit filed against Apple.The lawsuit adds fuel to reports that Apple has been developing an electric car in secret and has several hundred employees working on the project.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here