[mirthturtle]

Unpopular, at least compared to cars: e-bikes.

- costs next to nothing to charge

- fast and fun to get around

- never pay for parking

- cheap maintenance

- hauls groceries easily

- good exercise

[dharmab]

I do all my <3 mile trips on a ebike these days unless it's raining/snowing or I need to carry something large. It's great. The lifetime cost of ownership is a little more than my annual running costs for my car.

[ornornor]

To add, you can convert acoustic bikes to e-bikes with torque sensing using the tsdz2 which is pretty decent once flashed with the open source firmware by casainho.

[Shadowed_]

All of this applies to regular bikes even more :) Specially the last one.