Driver’s dilemma: Electric or bulletproof?
Zachary Faria
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There is far less concern among drivers in making sure their cars are “environmentally friendly” than there is about making sure their cars are bulletproof.
Armormax Founder and CEO Mark Burton says that customers are shelling out money to make sure parts of their cars are now bulletproof, a trend that has arisen in the last year and a half. According to Burton, “At the time we were doing about 85% of our business here in the United States for overseas customers, and now that has completely flipped.”
YEAR IN REVIEW: CRIME PLAGUES BIG CITIES IN 2022
Democrats have spent more time focusing on how to charge electric vehicles than they have on charging violent criminals, and the result is a crime surge in 2020 that hasn’t returned to normal levels three years later. Unsurprisingly, residents of the cities experiencing this surge are getting a little squeamish about how easily glass windows are broken by bullets.
Electric vehicles, meanwhile, are an afterthought for car owners. Just 4% of people own an electric vehicle, and only 12% of drivers are “seriously considering” purchasing one. This is happening while both the state of California and the Biden administration are attempting to force people into purchasing electric cars over the next decade.
Bulletproofing your car to make sure you’re safe driving through Baltimore may be expensive, but so is an electric car. Why pay extra for a more unreliable form of transportation when you could use that money on bulletproof windows?
That is the calculation many drivers are making. The abstract threat of climate change is far less real than the tangible threat of a career felon firing rounds into your car in a major city. Who knows? Maybe Elon Musk can take another swing at those “bulletproof” Cybertruck windows.