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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.

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.

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