Tbh the radio over here (I call it radio but it’s not of course these days) sounds a lot like what you pay for. Here I listen to a radio station that plays music of a particular genre (or mixed). Some have adds. Some don’t.
To be fair that is the same in the UK and European mainland as well. It’s the nature of the terrain. When I cross the valley I loose signal to local radios. When I’m amongst the sky scrapers I loose signal.
No/Yes. My Model 3 came with included FM radio but no AM antenna and no AM stations. No software update can change that without the hardware. In many areas, however, the AM stations also broadcasts an FM counterpart so you can still access it. Some areas don’t have this redundancy and what you can listen to in one vehicle with AM reception is lost in the Tesla.
From what I understand a lot of EV's don't have AM radio because extra shielding would be required for the signal to not be impacted by the motors.
I’ve heard that but not seen any credible verification. My AM radio doesn’t exist in my Tesla, but exists and works fine in my dual motor Ioniq5. Similarly in a neighbor’s Ioniq6 and another neighbor’s Genesis Electrified G70, all EVs.
🤷♂️ I am pretty sure my Volt is missing AM radio. I know that Congress was talking about making a law requiring AM radios in all vehicles. Not sure if it ever went anywhere.
Definitely emergency messages via phone masts
In the Netherlands, we have regular testing of the alarm system every first Monday of the month. No AM radio required. As you can see, not an SMS message, it is an instant blocking popup. Cant miss it.
The advantage to Sirius XM is that you get reception from the satellites when you are outside of radio broadcast and cell tower range. Likely not important in the UK but it does happen a lot in the western US.
Fair enough. I occasionally have a DAB drop but not that often. Easy enough to switch to a playlist on Apple Music if it lasts more than a minute or so.
Well crap you are right, why did I think it didn't have it?
BBC stations have 98% coverage in the UK, national commercial stations about 83%, and they can automatically hold on to a signal as part of the protocol. So yes in practice, with a good car install (i.e. no dashcam next to the antenna
) you won't loose it.Polestar doesn't have it either.
AW that can act as a key is useful. My AW can open the car but not easily and you still need a key on you to drive.
For my IONIQ 5 I have the myHyundai app on the phone which allows for remote unlock/lock amongst other things, and it also has an app for the AW. When I read about the Tesla announcement I tried it out, at home, and it works. While I have an Ultra 2 which/ has cellular, I don’t have cellular enables but now I am curious if it would work with a cellular plan.
Good deals can be had for sure right now esp month/quarter/year end timing … what size/style are you looking at?
) EVs do meet a lot of requirements of “average” people’s driving needsYea, I’m interested how this is going to work, I assume you’ll still have to invoke the app on the watch somehow, like eg you have to double-click to launch applepay. If the watch becomes an “active listening” tool, how will that impact battery life? Be interesting to see
Interesting, so on my phone I have 6 non-AW Bluetooth devices paired, but my U2 shows only the AirPods under Bluetooth. Does your watch show the Tesla under Bluetooth devices? And if so, did you have to pair them?
