EV startup Harbinger unveils a compact utility truck with a variety of electric and hybrid features

Los Angeles-based EV startup Harbinger has unveiled its second vehicle: a small, medium-duty truck.

Called the HC Series Cab, the new truck will be available as an all-electric vehicle, or as a hybrid (the latter has a range of up to 500 miles). The company says the vehicle features easy entry and exit, a tight cornering area, and the ability to fill out the chassis in a variety of ways, such as adding cargo boxes or beds. The company did not disclose prices.

“For too long, airplanes have had to compromise between payload, maneuverability, range and ride capacity,” said Harbinger’s founder and CEO, John Harris, in a statement. “We have developed this platform to be more efficient than legacy diesel options while unlocking new benefits through electrification and our expanded hybrid system to enable us to do real work in this sector.”

Founded in 2022, Harbinger has been moving fast in the past year, raising a Series B of $100 million in January 2025, and a Series C round of $160 million in November. The company has attracted customers such as FedEx and RV-builder THOR Industries with its heavy-duty truck chassis, which can also be fully electric or as an extended hybrid.

On the side, Harbinger has been diversifying beyond its truck chassis products. The company began selling energy storage products in January, and was linked with Airstream as its first customer. In February, the company announced its first acquisition, buying independent automotive software company Phantom AI.

While many electric car startups have failed over the past few years, Harris told TechCrunch that he tries to keep Harbinger “focused and very confident 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.

“The more we diversify our revenue streams, the better the kind of long-term, stable company we’re building, I think, is more tolerant of these wild swings that we have in the US market,” Harris told TechCrunch in February.

The US electric passenger car market is currently facing many headwinds, but Harris argued that EVs and hybrids make sense in trucking because of their low cost of ownership and less frequent maintenance requirements. He did not publicly disclose Harbinger’s revenue for 2025 — the first year in which it sells its large truck chassis — though he told TechCrunch last month that the company’s sales are “more than enough” for the entire electric truck market by 2024.

And with the company being vertically integrated, Harris said there are many ways Harbinger can continue to try to build new lines of business.

“We’ve built these specific ones that I think of as our internal suppliers. We have a battery supply company, through which we sell now. We have a car dealer, through which we will now sell. We have a fixed supplier. We have an axle supplier. All these things are Harbinger suppliers,” he said.