Los Angeles-based EV startup Harbinger has revealed its second vehicle: a smaller, medium-duty work truck.
Called the HC Series Cab, the new truck will be available as an all-electric vehicle, or as a hybrid (the latter has up to 500 miles of range). The company says the vehicle features easy entry and exit, a tight turning radius, and the ability to upfit the chassis in various ways, like adding cargo boxes or flatbeds. The company did not reveal pricing.
“For too long, fleets have had to compromise between payload, maneuverability, range and onboard capability,” Harbinger’s 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 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 RV-builder THOR Industries with its larger truck chassis, which can also operate all-electric or as a range-extended hybrid.
Alongside, Harbinger has been diversifying beyond its truck chassis products. The company started selling energy storage products in January, and roped in Airstream as its first customer. In February, the company announced its first-ever acquisition, buying autonomous vehicle software company Phantom AI.
While many electric vehicle startups have failed over the last few years, Harris has previously told TechCrunch he’s 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 push to create new lines of business has been deliberate, too.
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“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 told TechCrunch in February.
The U.S. electric passenger vehicle market is currently dealing with many headwinds, but Harris has argued that EVs and hybrids make sense in commercial trucking because of the lower total cost of ownership and less frequent maintenance requirements. He has not publicly revealed Harbinger’s revenue for 2025 — the first year that it sold its larger truck chassis — though he told TechCrunch last month that the company’s sales were a “multiple” of the entire electric truck market in 2024.
And since the company is vertically integrated, Harris said there are a number of ways Harbinger can keep trying to build new lines of business.
“We built these verticals of what I think of as our own in-house suppliers. We have a battery supplier, which we now sell from. We have a motor supplier, which we’ll now sell from. We have a suspension supplier. We have an axle supplier. All these things are Harbinger suppliers,” he said.
Sean O’Kane is a reporter who has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the transportation industry, including Tesla and the many startups chasing Elon Musk. Most recently, he was a reporter at Bloomberg News where he helped break stories about some of the most notorious EV SPAC flops. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.
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