I’m somewhat of a cell-phone luddite, mine works only for calls, text, nothing much else. But I’m presuming Pandora is a smart-phone app that allows listening to radio stations via the cell phone. I can see what you’re saying though, good points.
Who says it has to be a paid subscription? I listen to Spotify a lot. Especially when on trips and don’t want to spend time channel surfing. Spotify has a free subscription, but you have to listen to commercials (which are significantly fewer than radio stations).
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Back in the '60s, on Sunday nights, I used to listen to WOWO, broadcasting from Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Their signal was not strong, but I was able to pick it up in NJ with my little Zenith transistor radio. The reason for listening to that station was because every radio station in the NY/NJ market broadcast religious programming on Sunday night, and I wanted to listen to rock music.
Getting back to the present, I read that the reason (excuse??) for dropping AM from EV models is because the electric motors cause too much interference with the AM signal. Although I rarely tune-into an AM station, my Lexus plug-in hybrid does have AM on its entertainment system. When I am operating the vehicle in EV mode (which is most of the time) there is no degradation of the AM signal. I think that the claimed reason for deleting AM from certain EVs is… not valid.
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Or, Lexus felt it was worth the effort to shield the antenna/radio and include filtering to allow the car to also have AM reception, static free. That doesn’t mean the interference doesn’t exist or is not a problem to be overcome…
Good point, Turbo!
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