CaBi+ ebike helped me out in a pinch last night. I rode a Lime Bike from Foggy Bottom to Potomac Park, hoping to end my ride at the dockless scooter/bike rack near the CaBi station at the corner of Ohio Dr/W Basin Dr, but the Lime app on my phone wasn’t happy to end my ride close to the exclusion/no dockless parking zone despite that rack being clearly marked as a “preferred parking spot” with a blue P circle on the Lime operating area map. I rode to another Blue P preferred parking spot near Lincoln Memorial where I had the same problem. I tried emailing/texting Lime Customer Service with no response, then I called the phone number on the bike and managed to speak to someone in customer service who ended the ride, but that was after wasting 40 minutes faffing around trying to end the ride in the Lime app. I was able to snag a CaBi+ ebike I rode up hill to home in Arlington.
Two take homes from my experience using bikeshare ebikes in DC:
1) don’t expect the Lime App to work as advertized anywhere around the National Mall, but call them if you get stuck unable to end the ride which racks up the cost at $0.36 per minute;
2) the cost to me of the Lime fiasco was $20 including the 40 minutes of wasted time, the cost of my 25 minute CaBi+ ride home just $2.50!
+++UPDATE+++
Lime refunded me $15 for the wasted time.
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Second worked 
Third m’eh. Fourth I manually pedaled back to the office. 😡 Jump bikes under Uber… at least the ones I experienced… functioned poorly.
