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Automaker Group Says Keeping AM Radio In EVs Could Cost $3.8 Billion
Truth or exaggeration? Read the article and you can decide. I do know this - if I were to ever buy an EV, I would pay extra to ensure it had an AM radio in it as an option.
Now the question is, what happens if a bill before the U.S. government mandating that electric vehicles must have an AM radio actually passes?
Automaker Group Says Keeping AM Radio In EVs Could Cost $3.8 Billion
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The clock in the photo is 11:48 AM. The radio is set to 720. Could the driver be listening to WGN?
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I thought that, too. It's almost certainly WGN, unless the pic was taken in some far off place in the U.S.
And by the way, I'm pretty sure that's not a photo from a EV. It wouldn't likely have an AM radio in it, but even if it did, there would be a screen and not the old fashioned push button selectors for a few stations. (Which I dearly miss in my new car!)
But there's one other curious thing about that pic - did you notice the temperature display on the far upper right appears to be in Celsius?
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Re: Automaker Group Says Keeping AM Radio In EVs Could Cost $3.8 Billion
RadioActive wrote:
Now the question is, what happens if a bill before the U.S. government mandating that electric vehicles must have an AM radio actually passes?
The worst AM radio you’ve ever heard, buried in a sea of menus.
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The other side:
NAB Says Car Industry Is Inflating The Cost Of Keeping AM Radio In Dashboards
Interesting that the radio pictured in this article is also set to 720!
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But there's one other curious thing about that pic - did you notice the temperature display on the far upper right appears to be in Celsius?
You don't notice that the speedometer is in KMs? NOT miles...
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