Electric Citi Bikes will be slightly easier to find now – but members will have to pay more to ride them, company officials announced on Thursday.

Citi Bike plans to add 4,000 new pedal-assist electric bikes to its fleet starting on Thursday and throughout the spring. And now, those bikes will cost an extra $2 per ride for members.

“Keeping pedal-assist batteries charged and bikes available requires additional operational resources, including additional staff members who swap out depleted batteries with fresh ones,” the company said in a press release.

Citi Bike first added some pedal-assist bikes to its fleet last year, but riders have complained that they can never find them. The company said it planned to add more electric bikes to augment transit options during the now-scuttled L train shutdown.

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