Going Electric - TFI Bikes introduces e-Bikes in Cork
It’s springtime, the weather is getting warm, the trees are in full bloom, and I haven’t written anything about TFI Bikes for far too long. Well not on this blog anyway. It’s high time I changed that, especially since TFI Bikes is just going through the biggest paradigm shift since the system was introduced here in Cork in late 2014. After a very welcome, if somewhat tepid refresh in the wake of the 2020 lockdowns, the last year has seen a veritable flood of new features rolled out across the network. Let’s take a look then, shall we? Everything started in February 2025, at least from my perspective. Engineers Ireland hosted a presentation by Telclic, the operating company behind TFI Bikes, in the Rochestown Park Hotel, one which was thankfully also streamed online. A lot of this presentation dealt with the mechanics behind the scenes of TFI Bikes, how the docking stations actually work, what the software backend looks like and what it’s hosted on, etc.. More importantly though, the pr...