From a New York Post op-ed about several major carmakers wanting to discontinue providing AM radio reception in new models, this tidbit:
Most carmakers have pledged to stick with the classic AM/FM options, but the few planning to do away with the AM wavelength say that electric vehicles generate more electromagnetic interference than gas-powered cars, disrupting the reception of AM signals and causing static, noise and a high-frequency hum.
Historically, methods of transportation create pollution. With horses it was city streets ankle deep in manure, not to mention dead animals scattered about. With internal combustion it's been carbon-laden emissions that produce damaging smog and, we're told, a global warming trend. Electric vehicles will, for the foreseeable future, still produce carbon emissions, just in another place,
And now, hum. The planet is already blanketed by electromagnetic hum in a low register — electric cars bid to contribute a higher note to the chorus.
I don't mean to be an alarmist…
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