Electric vehicle startup Harbinger unveils a smaller work truck with electric and hybrid variants

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

The new truck will be called the HC Series Cab, and will be available as an all-electric vehicle, or as a hybrid vehicle (the latter has up to 500 miles of range). The company says the car features easy entry and exit, a narrow turning radius, and the ability to modify the chassis in different ways, such as adding cargo boxes or flat roofs. The company did not disclose prices.

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

Founded in 2022, Harbinger has been moving quickly over the past year, raising a $100 million Series B in January 2025, and a $160 million Series C round in November. The company has attracted customers like FedEx and THOR Industries to build RVs with its larger truck chassis, which can also power an all-electric vehicle or as a range-extended hybrid vehicle.

Besides, Harbinger has diversified beyond truck body products. The company began selling energy storage products in January, joining Airstream as its first customer. In February, the company announced its first-ever acquisition, purchasing self-driving vehicle software company Phantom AI.

While many electric vehicle startups have failed over the past few years, Harris previously told TechCrunch that he tries to keep Harbinger focused and has very high confidence in what we say we’re going to do before we say we’re going to do it.

The pressure to create new business lines has also been deliberate.

“The more we diversify revenue streams, the better kind of long-term, stable company that we build, the more tolerant of this wild volatility that we have in the U.S. market,” Harris told TechCrunch in February.

The U.S. electric passenger vehicle market currently faces several headwinds, but Harris sees electric vehicles and hybrids making sense in commercial trucking because of their lower total cost of ownership and less frequent maintenance requirements. He has not publicly disclosed Harbinger’s revenue for 2025 — the first year it has sold its larger truck chassis — though he told TechCrunch last month that the company’s sales were a “double” of the all-electric truck market in 2024.

Since the company is vertically integrated, Harris said there are a number of ways Harbinger can continue to try to build new business lines.

“We’ve built these verticals for what I think of as our internal suppliers. We have a battery supplier, which we’re selling from now. We’ve got an engine supplier, which we’ll be selling from now. We’ve got a suspension supplier. We’ve got an axle supplier. All of those things are Harbinger suppliers.”