EV startup Harbinger reveals a smaller work truck with electric and hybrid variants

Los Angeles-based EV startup Harbinger has revealed its 2nd vehicle: a smaller, medium-duty enactment truck.

Called the HC Series Cab, the caller motortruck volition beryllium disposable arsenic an all-electric vehicle, oregon arsenic a hybrid (the second has up to 500 miles of range). The institution says the conveyance features casual introduction and exit, a choky turning radius, and the quality to upfit the chassis successful assorted ways, similar adding cargo boxes oregon flatbeds. The institution did not uncover pricing.

“For excessively long, fleets person had to compromise betwixt payload, maneuverability, scope and onboard capability,” Harbinger’s co-founder and CEO, John Harris, said successful a statement. “We engineered this level to outperform bequest diesel options portion unlocking caller advantages done electrification and our range-extended hybrid strategy to alteration existent enactment successful the field.”

Founded successful 2022, Harbinger has been moving rapidly implicit the past year, raising a $100 cardinal Series B successful January 2025, and a $160 cardinal Series C round successful November. The institution has attracted customers similar FedEx and RV-builder THOR Industries with its larger motortruck chassis, which tin besides run all-electric oregon arsenic a range-extended hybrid.

Alongside, Harbinger has been diversifying beyond its motortruck chassis products. The institution started selling vigor retention products successful January, and roped successful Airstream arsenic its archetypal customer. In February, the institution announced its first-ever acquisition, buying autonomous conveyance bundle institution Phantom AI.

While galore electrical conveyance startups person failed implicit the past fewer years, Harris has antecedently told TechCrunch he’s trying to support Harbinger “focused and person precise precocious assurance successful what we accidental we’re going to bash earlier we accidental we’re going to bash it.”

The propulsion to make caller lines of concern has been deliberate, too.

“The much we diversify gross sources, the amended benignant of long-term, unchangeable institution we physique that becomes, I think, much tolerant of these chaotic swings we person successful the U.S. market,” Harris told TechCrunch successful February.

The U.S. electrical rider conveyance marketplace is presently dealing with galore headwinds, but Harris has argued that EVs and hybrids marque consciousness successful commercialized trucking due to the fact that of the little full outgo of ownership and little predominant attraction requirements. He has not publically revealed Harbinger’s gross for 2025 — the archetypal twelvemonth that it sold its larger motortruck chassis — though helium told TechCrunch past period that the company’s income were a “multiple” of the full electrical motortruck marketplace successful 2024.

And since the institution is vertically integrated, Harris said determination are a fig of ways Harbinger tin support trying to physique caller lines of business.

“We built these verticals of what I deliberation of arsenic our ain in-house suppliers. We person a artillery supplier, which we present merchantability from. We person a centrifugal supplier, which we’ll present merchantability from. We person a suspension supplier. We person an axle supplier. All these things are Harbinger suppliers,” helium said.