AMPED FOR CITI E-BIKES

But good luck finding one

You’ll have more luck catching lightning in a bottle than snagging one of Citi Bike’s new electric bicycles, thanks to their immense popularity and low supply.

Motivate, which runs the bike-rental service, rolled out 200 of the battery-powered, pedal-assist rides under a pilot program over the summer, and New Yorkers have been bolting for them ever since.

“I haven’t seen any electric bikes ever,” Pegi Vail said, as she grabbed a regular Citi Bike from a dock on East 35th Street. “I’d use them if I saw them.”

The juiced-up bicycles (above) get way more love than their all-human-powered counterparts, averaging 14 trips a day compared with seven for the regular bikes.

And when the souped-up bikes are available, they’re gone in a flash. The rides get snatched up within minutes, according to data from the High Tailer app, which tracks electric Citi Bikes and marks their locations on a map with a lightning-bolt icon.

When rider volume is high, as few as 10 of the 200 bikes are available at a time, according to the app’s developer, Nicholas Taylor.

The best time to find an electric Citi Bike was at 4 a.m. on Oct. 31, when just 79 — fewer than half — of them were available, according to the app, which culls data from Citi Bike.

Part of the reason they are so scarce is because when their batteries run dry, they take 45 minutes to recharge, according to Citi Bike.

“We’ve worked so hard to keep up with the demand,” Citi Bike spokeswoman Julie Wood said. “But right away, the batteries haven’t been able to handle the demand because they have been ridden so much.”

The clock is ticking for Motivate to work out the kinks. The company plans to roll out 800 more e-bikes by the time the L train stops running to Manhattan on April 27, bringing the total to 1,000.

The company wants to keep all of the cycles corralled in just four docks on either side of the Williamsburg Bridge and is weighing charging riders a fee if they take them elsewhere in the city.