Harbinger, a Los Angeles-based automotive manufacturer, announced its official launch and unveiled a new electric vehicle (EV) platform for the medium-duty industry.
The company says Harbinger’s initial product line will include electric stripped chassis and cab chassis designed specifically to address the unique performance, durability and lifespan expectations required in Class 4-7 vehicles.
“Medium-duty vehicles serve as the backbone of the commercial transportation industry and are responsible for delivering tens of millions of packages and critical services every day,” says John Harris, CEO of Harbinger. “But while this industry has experienced tremendous growth, fleet customers today face acute shortages of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles, and any meaningful supply of production-ready EV offerings is still years out. We are solving this problem head on.”
Production for Harbinger electric platforms is projected to scale significantly over the next five years, with first vehicles expected in customers’ hands in late 2023, followed by the launch of volume production in 2024.
Over the past year, a growing team of EV passenger car veterans have quietly been developing a medium-duty powertrain and chassis to overhaul an industry still running on half-century-old technology. Current EV solutions in the medium-duty space offer only incremental improvements, largely by retrofitting popular internal combustion engine (ICE) products, but Harbinger’s suite of in-house developed EV solutions are grounded in road-tested passenger EV technologies and enable a new paradigm in chassis architecture, focused on electrification and improvements in vehicle operation, safety and driver ergonomics, the company says.
Harbinger says its EV solutions feature:
Every element of Harbinger’s medium-duty EV has been reimagined and engineered to deliver category-defining attributes, including:
