The Citi Bike Juice Crews

The docks don't charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.

- John Surico

Warm weather brings Citi Bike use to its peak. In June alone, the average was 165,000 rides daily, and there may be as many as 200,000 a day by fall. Part of that boom has come from riders who want the Cosmo, the silver e-bike that has replaced many of the blue first-generation e-bikes (which the company hopes to retire by late July) and complements the pedal-powered originals. A total of 15,000 power-assisted bikes (of 40,000) now provide 65 percent of Citi Bike’s trips. Lyft, which owns Citi Bike, didn’t anticipate this scale of e-bike demand and is figuring out