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Auto industry summit in hottest summer on record drives focus on sustainability

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Engineers at Teijin have been working to develop an advanced flame-retardant material to ease consumer and automaker worries about battery fires.
August 04, 2023 05:00 PM

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Historians will look back at the summer of 2023 as a miserable season of cities sweltering under unprecedented heat, destructive flooding in Vermont, Chicago and Philadelphia, massive forest fires in Canada and the American West and smoke altering the color of the sky.

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