A deceptive Tesla stunt? Never.

Cool, then get a radio and store it in your basement until you need it. No need to force auto makers to put it in your car, most likely buried under 3 submenus.

Generally speaking, if you’ve lost power, you don’t have a radio.  It would never occur to me to use AM radio to tune in anything significant.

If only some place sold tiny transistor radios that would fit in your pocket.

The problem with skip is you don’t know exactly who is going to be able to hear it.  It’s not reliable as to location.

If they want to keep AM for public safety, they can pick one frequency and reserve it across the United States. Clear out 5 KHz of the best spectrum and treat them like the EBS where you can activate it in affected areas via a few 50-100 kW antennas. Use it for regional emergency weather alerts, national security…