Harbinger unveils compact electric work truck with EV and hybrid power options

Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup Harbinger has introduced its second vehicle, a smaller medium-duty work truck.

Known as the HC Series Cab, the new truck will be offered as either a fully electric vehicle or a hybrid, with the hybrid delivering up to 500 miles of range. Harbinger says the truck is designed with easy entry and exit, a tight turning radius, and a chassis that can be adapted in multiple ways, including with cargo boxes or flatbeds. The company did not disclose pricing.

“For too long, fleets have had to compromise between payload, manoeuvrability, range and onboard capability,” Harbinger co-founder and CEO John Harris said in a statement. “We engineered this platform to outperform legacy diesel options while unlocking new advantages through electrification and our range-extended hybrid system to enable real work in the field.”

Founded in 2022, Harbinger has moved quickly over the last year, securing a $100 million Series B round in January 2025 and then a $160 million Series C in November. The company has already signed customers such as FedEx and RV manufacturer THOR Industries for its larger truck chassis, which can operate as either fully electric vehicles or range-extended hybrids.

At the same time, Harbinger has been broadening its activities beyond truck chassis products. In January, the company began selling energy storage products and brought in Airstream as its first customer. Then, in February, Harbinger announced its first acquisition, purchasing autonomous vehicle software company Phantom AI.

While several electric vehicle startups have collapsed in recent years, Harris previously said he is trying to keep Harbinger “focused and have very high confidence in what we say we’re going to do before we say we’re going to do it.”

The effort to build additional business lines has also been intentional.

“The more we diversify revenue sources, the better kind of long-term, stable company we build that becomes, I think, more tolerant of these wild swings we have in the U.S. market,” Harris said.

The U.S. electric passenger vehicle market is currently facing several headwinds. Still, Harris has argued that electric and hybrid vehicles make strong sense in the commercial trucking sector because of their lower total cost of ownership and reduced maintenance needs. He has not publicly shared Harbinger’s 2025 revenue, the first year the company sold its larger truck chassis, although he said last month that Harbinger’s sales were a “multiple” of the entire electric truck market in 2024.

Because the company is vertically integrated, Harris said Harbinger has several ways it can continue creating new business opportunities.

“We built these verticals of what I think of as our own in-house suppliers. We have a battery supplier, from whom we now sell. We have a motor supplier we’ll now source from. We have a suspension supplier. We have an axle supplier. All these things are Harbinger suppliers,” he said.