Yahoo Autos Harbinger reveals medium-duty electric truck chassis at Detroit Auto Show
A company called Harbinger says electric medium-duty trucks are an unmet demand in the market. To help remedy this, the company revealed its electric truck chassis at the Detroit Auto Show, including a completed truck.
The e-chassis underpins Class 4, 5 and 6 trucks, which makes delivery vehicles the most obvious candidates for an upfit, but it could be anything from emergency vehicles to school buses to RVs. “I know we sound like another EV startup promising the world,” said Harbinger CEO John Harris, “and that’s why you’re just hearing from us now. We wanted to build it first, and then show it to you. We’ve been working diligently behind the scenes.”
Harbinger said the chassis, including battery and e-axle, was developed completely in-house, with just the battery cells sourced from abroad. Its battery capacity is scalable in 35-kWh increments — the capacity of each pack — and use 800-volt architecture and a liquid cooling system for faster charging and improved performance. Each 35-kWh pack provides about 40 miles of driving range. Harbinger says this truck chassis was built “for all demographics and climates,” with driver comfort and safety in mind to help combat driver shortages. The trucks also use a steer- and drive-by-wire system, which helps to future-proof the vehicles for autonomous driving.
