Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Power move: Citi Bike's new charging station lands on 1st Avenue and 14th Street

Photo by William Klayer 

Citi Bike crews yesterday swapped out the old docking station on the SW corner of First Avenue and 14th Street for a new electrified model. 

The DOT announced earlier this month an expansion of electrified Citi Bike charging station networks, with plans to electrify 13 charging stations in existing station locations across Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Per the DOT: 
Electric grid-connected stations allow Citi Bike e-bikes to charge on-site while docked, rather than requiring batteries to be manually swapped out by staff in vehicles. Based on experience deploying bikeshare charging stations in cities like Barcelona and Montreal, Lyft projects that a network of Citi Bike charging stations will both improve e-bike availability for riders and significantly reduce operational costs from manual battery swapping.
Lyft officials have said that electric Citi Bike ridership surpassed 29 million e-bike trips in 2024, some of them not even on First Avenue or Second Avenue in the East Village. 

FYI: Citi Bike's fleet features 15,000 pedal-assist e-bikes and over 20,000 traditional pedal bikes.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM

    Sure. Just put large, easily seen registration numbers on the bikes so we can identify the operator when they hit someone.

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    1. AnonymousMay 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM

      Cars are terrible! More bikes! Wait, no bikes are terrible! I can't stop complaining! I'm soooo New York!

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