The largest automaker to have announced it was removing AM radios from its vehicles’ in-dash audio systems suddenly reversed course, announcing that it will restore AM service to all its models, including both electric and internal combustion vehicles.
. Farley said the company will provide a software update for electric vehicles already produced without AM radio. Ford and several other automakers had eliminated AM radio from electric models because the vehicles’ electric drive systems could interfere with the AM signal, causing static. But some other manufacturers, such as Toyota, said they had found a technological fix and kept AM radio in their electric cars.
The two senators, as ideologically opposite as any pair in the Senate, were part of a large, bipartisan group in both houses of Congress that had called on automakers to keep AM in cars and who have signed onto a bill that would require them to do so.Markey issued a statement Tuesday calling on the other automakers to follow Ford’s lead, saying that “Ford’s reversal reflects an overdue realization about the importance of AM radio, but too many automakers are still going the wrong direction.
The other companies that had announced they would remove AM from electric vehicles — VW, BMW, Mazda, Volvo, Tesla, Polestar and Rivian — have not announced any change in policy. A number of other automakers — including Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Kia and Jaguar Land Rover — said they haveAdvertisement
Ford spokesman Alan Hall had said this month that because most AM stations also offer their programming online or on FM sister stations, the automaker would continue to “offer these alternatives for customers to hear their favorite AM radio music and news as we remove [AM] from most new and updated models.” The 2024 Mustang was to have been Ford’s first internal combustion model to be marketed without AM.
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