[gumby]

> That's a pretty ridiculous penny pinching.

Ford is eliminating AM radio from its entire line (except where contractually required), saving, I suppose, less than $10/vehicle. They’d rather deal with the bad press to save a few bucks from their BOM.

[tehnub]

This may be marketing lies, but I thought that was due to AM radio not working well on electric vehicles [0].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/business/media/am-radio-c...

[gumby]

If you can’t use an AM radio in an electric vehicle your vehicle is violating FCC regulations.

[tzs]

I don't think the FCC cares about interference unless it affects other people.

Look at TVs and computer monitors for example. I've got a Samsung SyncMaster T240 monitor that blasts out annoying noise all across the 2m ham band (and nearby police and fire bands). I've got to turn it off if I want to usefully scan those bands with a radio that is within a meter of the monitor.

Yet it passed FCC certification. Yes, it is noisy, but even if I were in a small apartment it would not be noisy enough to interfere with someone in another apartment. It just is a problem near the monitor.

Not all TVs and monitors are noisy. When playing with an RTL-SDR on my 2017 iMac I've never found any significant noise coming from the iMac for example.

Unfortunately this is something that reviewers don't seem to ever test.

[rnk]

Almost every EV now comes without an AM radio because of the interference. The original tesla model S had an am radio, but now they dropped them. It's apparently not a requirement any more. They must have some some special work to somehow eliminate the interference of the electric drivetrain.