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by vvoid 1116 days ago
It's not to trim the BOM, it's because electric vehicles emit copious amounts of interference. It is easier to drop AM radio than suppress the RFI.

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

Technical point, you generally would not be able to recover an AM broadcast signal from a cellular baseband. You might be able to get it from a direct sampling receiver (some RTL-SDRs can do this), but it implies additional band filters and of course an antenna.