I don't live in Sydney, but...

My car has been playing up for some time now. Last week, it stalled time and time agin one day when leaving work. I had to keep the rewvs up to about 2000 to keep it from stalling. Two days later, it refused to start, even with a shot of fuel straight down the carby throat. It finally fired up just as the battery was dying, but ony started actually running under its own steam after about a minute of running the starter motor and gradually increasing engine RPMs. This came on top of months of irregular issues like hunting for fuel above 60km/h. I just can't trust it anymore, so it's parked for the foreseeable future (needs some cancer cut out anyway). I was going to ride my bike to work on Saturday, but when i went to use it, discovere it had a puncture. I had no time to repair it (nor had any spares anyway), so I ended up walking. It took 45 minutes at a brisk walk. It takes 15 minutes in the car, so my average speed in the car must be below 30km/h, thanks to all the traffic lights. I could probably bike there just as fast, and, once I repair the tire, that's exactly what I'll be doing. The car probably won't see more regular useage than once a month or so.

In fact, I'll probably take the opportunity to convert it to a short-range EV, as well as put an elecrtic hub motor on the bike. Two 12V Lead-Acid car batteries will be able to get me from home all the way to my girlfriends house.