>Twice as expensive as my 2010 car

Very few ebikes are going to be $5k-8k

I mean you can get decent e-bikes for $1000 and really good ones for $2000 and a decent regular bike is like at least 400- 500$.

If you have like a $2000 2010 car, I think you're very soon going to figure out why you were able to buy it for $2000

Are they?

Also there's no real reason when you can get an electric bike that does the same performance but has no license requirements and can go places motor vehicles can't go