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AM Radio Will Be Required in All New Cars If This Bill Becomes Law

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AM Radio Will Be Required in All New Cars If This Bill Becomes Law

The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives and moves on to the U.S. Senate.

Baseball and talk radio fans are in luck. The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives this week, and it’s one step closer to making AM radio a requirement in all new vehicles made or sold in the United States. If the bill passes, manufacturers that have chosen to leave out AM radio functions will have to correct course with their new vehicles.

There are more than 4300 active AM radio stations in the United States, according to the FCC, and Nielsen reports say more than 80 million Americans listen to AM radio every month. AM stations are especially important in rural areas or in times of natural disasters, where radio may be the most reliable form of getting information to the public. That’s the driving force behind the bill, which aims to equip every vehicle with the ability to get an AM radio signal when internet or cellular service might not be available.

Automakers including BMW, Tesla , Mazda , and Volkswagen have quietly eliminated the AM radio option in their EVs in recent years, though some models have gone without AM stations for over a decade. Ford briefly took it a step further by announcing it would remove AM radio in all of its vehicles, regardless of powertrain, for the 2024 model year, but the company walked back that announcement after the act was introduced in May 2023.


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