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The article/video mentions Tesla - curious to know if other EVs have omitted the AM radio from the car, or have worked around the inteference issues
by djhworld 4y ago
The article/video mentions Tesla - curious to know if other EVs have omitted the AM radio from the car, or have worked around the inteference issues
- vel0city 4y agoApparently Ford is starting to remove them from their EVs due to struggles related to interference. I don't listen to AM that much in my EV (Mach E) but the few times I have tried it seemed to work acceptably.
- simplyaccont 4y agoit's gone from Volvo and I think some other cars as well (like BMW, Audi, etc)
- rsync 4y agoOne of our cars is a 2023 Audi e-tron and it has no AM radio. My immediate question was, was it harder and more expensive to specify a radio module/part with FM, but not AM ? It seems like a design flex and not an actual cost or UI affordance, etc. It is annoying because sports broadcasts in the Bay Area are typically on AM.
- Johnythree 4y agoThe problem isn't in fitting an AM radio, but in suppressing the Electromagnetic interference from the Electric motors and circuity. Hopefully the FCC will wake up and insist that they fix the interference, and not just hide it by not fitting an AM radio.
- outworlder 4y agoNissan Leaf here. AM radio works fine. Given that Tesla will add it for a fee(and older Teslas had it), I presume its removal is not technology-related.
- jdofaz 4y agoThat is not correct, you cannot add AM. The radio fee is for people who upgraded their computer hardware and want a new radio that is compatible with the new computer. The new radio does not have AM.
- Johnythree 4y agoYou miss the point: Tesla chose not to fit AM radios because it would have made suppressing the electrical interference so much harder. Hopefully this will change as the FCC starts looking closer at the E.M. interference from Teslas.