The overlap of people buying an EV and who listen to AM radio regularly enough to care is going to be minuscule. I’d even hazard that once EVs are mandated.
Between the standard AM radio content and the availability of better options like streamed audio, I just don’t see people caring.
Until and unless an emergency does happen, in which case, they’d have to actively know to tune in (unlikely) and have to not want to pull over to listen.
They’d also have to be in a situation where the other emergency broadcast tools on their phones don’t work.
I just don’t see it being anything that any number of consumers would care about, beyond the standard number of outliers that are usually accounted for.
If they don't care about reception quality then they don't need to factor anything in; the AM radio would be a trivial addition to the FM radios they already have. But they lobbyied against this because they do care, they'd rather have no AM radio than one that works poorly.
It's fuck-all hardware, FM and AM radios have been paired together since the 80s as an absolutely trivial expense; it probably costs them more to get FM hardware without the AM than to get both as a package. In fact their hardware is probably AM capable already, merely unexposed in the user interface. And buttons? Who is still making cars with real buttons for the radio?
Between the standard AM radio content and the availability of better options like streamed audio, I just don’t see people caring.
Until and unless an emergency does happen, in which case, they’d have to actively know to tune in (unlikely) and have to not want to pull over to listen.
They’d also have to be in a situation where the other emergency broadcast tools on their phones don’t work.
I just don’t see it being anything that any number of consumers would care about, beyond the standard number of outliers that are usually accounted for.