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Yes. The intent is not that AM radio be "free" in the abstract. It's that charging for it means it's an optional upgrade.

One which consumers likely won't buy.

They don't care if the sticker price goes up by the cost of the am radio. They care that manufacturers install it, and don't make it optional.

And they don't care because it's like $5 worth of parts (honestly probably less).

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Are FM radios made which don’t include AM?

Can they produce a car which includes a radio that is practically useless because the vehicle gives off so much electric noise?

It's not just the radios, it's the antennas as well, a ~1MHz antenna is very different to a ~100MHz antenna.

Gosh if only there was some sort of widely distributed network with transmitters all over the place that could get information to portable devices that people carried with them at all times and which can be woken up remotely even if they're otherwise asleep/turned off, we wouldn't need to push this obsolete century-old technology with a vague justification of "emergencies".

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