Harbinger Motors

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Harbinger Motors is a Garden Grove, California-based private American commercial-vehicle manufacturer founded in 2021. It develops vertically integrated, purpose-built electric and plug-in-hybrid medium-duty chassis and vehicles for fleets, OEMs and upfitters, including step vans, box trucks, cab-chassis vehicles and RVs. Its stated proposition is diesel-comparable acquisition cost with lower operating cost, supported by an 800-V battery, integrated powertrain, driver-centric chassis and U.S. manufacturing. The company has reported $358 million raised through its November 2025 Series C; third-party profiles report about 300–400 employees. Public evidence reviewed did not establish a monthly website-traffic figure, a formal company-wide remote policy, or official GitHub/X/engineering-blog URLs.

Primary product

Purpose-built medium-duty electric and plug-in-hybrid stripped chassis and complete cab/chassis vehicles for commercial vans, step vans, box trucks, RVs and specialty fleets.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

Garden Grove, California, United States

Team size

300–400 (company-directory/LinkedIn-derived estimate; 313 reported)

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Motor vehicle manufacturing

Sub-industry

Commercial electric and hybrid medium-duty vehicles / electrified truck chassis

Offices

12821 Knott Street, Garden Grove, California 92841, United States (HQ)

Mountain View, California, United States (Phantom AI team after acquisition)

Business model

B2B commercial-vehicle manufacturing

Sale of medium-duty electric and plug-in-hybrid chassis

OEM/upfitter partnerships for vans, box trucks, RVs and specialty vehicles

Fleet sales and direct commercial orders

Potential ADAS/computer-vision licensing and software services

Battery-pack and energy-storage products

Funding

Stage

Late-stage venture / Series C

Total raised

$358M

Latest round

Series C · Nov 2025

Latest amount

$160M

Series C

Nov 2025 · FedEx, Capricorn Technology Impact Fund, and THOR Industries

$160M

Series B

Jan 2025 · Capricorn Technology Impact Fund and Leitmotif

$100M

Series A

Sep 2023 · Ridgeline and THOR Industries

$60M

Seed

Jan 2021

People & investors

Leadership

John Henry Harris

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Phillip Weicker

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Gilbert Passin

Chief Production Officer

Ben Dusastre

Chief Financial Officer

Jake Obert

Vice President, Sales

Lisa Lillelund

Vice President, Partnerships

John Sztykiel

Vice President, Business Development

My Doan Cong

Vice President, People

Fred DePerez

Senior Vice President, Marketing and Service

Spencer Campbell

Senior Vice President, Finance

Alexi Charbonneau

Vice President, Chassis & Chief Engineer

Alex Tylee

Vice President, Powertrain Engineering

Filip Dziwulski

Vice President, Software Engineering

Charity Goodman Allen

Government affairs / leadership role (title not clearly specified on reviewed page)

Investors

Acequia Capital

ArcTern Ventures

Capricorn Investment Group / Technology Impact Fund

FedEx

Greycroft / Coca-Cola System Sustainability Fund

TechNexus Venture Collaborative

THOR Industries

Tiger Global Management

Work & culture

Harbinger describes an ownership-oriented, high-standards and action-biased culture: close to the work, momentum over perfection, adaptability, calculated risk-taking, craftsmanship and accountability. It calls employees “Harbirds.” Most roles appear onsite in Garden Grove, with some hybrid or remote sales positions.

Work style

Onsite

Visa sponsorship

Yes

Compensation

Public job postings show approximately $60,000–$75,000 for an inside-sales role, $120,000–$140,000 for a senior reliability test engineer, and broader engineering ranges commonly around $100,000–$220,000 depending on role. H-1B/LCA-derived public data reports a roughly $140,000 median sponsored salary; this is a signal, not a company-wide compensation policy.

Benefits

100% employee-covered health, dental and vision (reported in job postings)

401(k), HSA and FSA

Paid time off and parental leave

Annual vacation bonus

Wellness and fertility benefits

Cell-phone stipend

Complimentary meals and stocked kitchens

Early-stage stock options

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly listed; B2B negotiated vehicle/chassis pricing. Management has positioned the platform around acquisition-cost parity with comparable diesel vehicles, with fleet economics and total cost of ownership as the sales proposition.

Differentiators

—Vertically integrated medium-duty EV platform
—Purpose-built stripped chassis rather than adapted passenger-vehicle architecture
—Electric and plug-in-hybrid configurations
—Target of zero acquisition-price premium versus diesel equivalents
—800-V liquid-cooled battery scalable in 35-kWh increments
—Steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire readiness
—Driver-comfort-focused suspension and low floor height
—Reported 450,000-mile commercial service-life target
—Onshore U.S. manufacturing
—Integrated ADAS and potential software licensing through Phantom AI

Technology

Vertically integrated EV platform

800-VDC liquid-cooled battery

2170-format lithium-ion cells

35-kWh modular battery increments

14-pole permanent-magnet motor

Integrated power electronics and gearbox/eAxle

Direct oil cooling

Steer-by-wire

Brake-by-wire

Independent double-wishbone front suspension

ADAS / computer vision through Phantom AI

Emergency braking, adaptive cruise and lane keeping

Yocto

Python

C/C++-adjacent embedded/software roles (inferred from postings and stack signals)

Docker

PyTorch

Grafana

LabVIEW

dSPACE

Customers

FedEx

THOR Industries / Entegra Coach

Bimbo Bakeries USA

Airstream

Commercial fleets, OEMs and vehicle upfitters

American Rheinmetall (partnership/customer context)

ZF Group (ADAS licensing partner)

Competitors

Workhorse

BrightDrop / General Motors commercial EVs

Ford Pro / E-Transit and medium-duty offerings

Daimler/Freightliner eM2

Isuzu and other medium-duty OEMs

Rivian commercial vans

REE Automotive

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$10M–$20M annual estimate; one company-data profile reports approximately $15.6M, while trade reporting cites approximately $87M of 2025 vehicle revenue. These figures conflict and should be treated as estimates with differing methodologies.

Signals & risks

Other

Nov 2025

Large capital requirement and production-ramp risk remain material for a private EV manufacturer, although the Series C and customer order indicate continued financing and commercial traction.

Source

Acquisition

Nov 2025

Completed its first acquisition, Phantom AI, in November 2025; financial terms were undisclosed. Integration and expansion into software/ADAS add execution and integration risk.

Source

Latest news

Harbinger EV truck sales double after incentives end

Clean Trucking · Apr 2026

Harbinger reported 733 commercial EVs sold in 2025 and roughly $87 million in vehicle revenue, with quarterly sales reportedly doubling after federal incentives expired; these figures are company-reported through trade press.

Harbinger Acquires Autonomous Driving Company Phantom AI and Secures Licensing Agreement with ZF

Harbinger Motors / TechCrunch · Feb 2026

Harbinger acquired Phantom AI, adding computer-vision ADAS to its vehicles and creating a software-licensing relationship with ZF; terms were undisclosed.

Harbinger Raises $160 Million in Series C Funding Co-Led by FedEx, Capricorn and THOR Industries

Harbinger Motors · Nov 2025

The company announced a $160 million Series C co-led by FedEx, Capricorn and THOR, bringing reported cumulative funding to $358 million, alongside FedEx’s initial order for 53 vehicles.

THOR Industries and Harbinger advance the Embark electric motorhome

Harbinger Motors / THOR Industries · Sep 2025

THOR’s Entegra Coach Embark range-extended electric motorhome uses Harbinger’s chassis, illustrating the company’s RV partnership and hybrid-chassis application.

EV startup Harbinger’s obsession with simplicity fuels $100M Series B

TechCrunch / Harbinger Motors · Jan 2025

Harbinger announced its $100 million Series B to expand production and sales/service operations; the company said its order book was 4,690 vehicles worth approximately $500 million.

About / team Careers LinkedIn company Newsroom Products Technology Website

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Jobs and careers at Harbinger Motors

90 jobs at Harbinger Motors

Equipment Maintenance Engineer

On-site

Manufacturing

Garden Grove, CA; Garden Grove, California, United States

5d ago

On-site

Full-time