Ford GoBikes are going electric in San Francisco

Motivate, the company behind the bike-share system of San Francisco Bay Area is planning to add pedal-assist e-bikes to its fleets this year. The company announced that the one-year pilot will launch with 250 of these e-bikes in San Francisco. The goal of designing these bikes is to reduce the need of energy riders require while cycling.

Metropolitan Transportation Commission Deputy Executive Director Alix Bockelman said “E-Bikes will give Bay Area residents and visitors one more option when traveling around San Francisco, which will help to make San Francisco more livable and reduce congestion and household transportation costs. We look forward to the expansion of the Ford GoBike e-Bike pilot to the other Ford GoBike cities.”

Beginning in April, riders will be able to locate the e-bikes using the standard Ford GoBike app. The bikes can go a top speed of 18 mph. Recently, there are 262 Ford GoBike stations with 2,600+ bikes across the San Francisco Bay Area. According to the company by the end of 2018, there will be7,000 Ford GoBikes and 546 stations featuring that will make it the second-largest bike-sharing system in North America.

Bike-sharing has become a hot space for founders and VCs alike. In the U.S., investors have poured in $8 million into Spin and $62 million to LimeBike as both startups aim to compete against Motivate that also operates CitiBikes in New York City.

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