Commercial EV OEM Harbinger is on a roll. Just in the last few months, the company has launched a new line of battery storage products, acquired autonomous driving company Phantom AI, and unveiled a new medium-duty truck. CEO John Harris told Charged that his five-year-old company’s success is based on specialization and vertical integration (read our January in-depth interview with Harris).
For its next act, Harbinger has partnered with mobile healthcare solution provider Frazer to electrify ambulances and mobile healthcare vehicles using Harbinger’s plug-in hybrid vehicle chassis and battery technology.
Texas-based Frazer designs and builds emergency response and mobile healthcare vehicles for EMS agencies, fire departments, hospitals and specialty care programs. As part of the new partnership, the company has made a strategic investment in Harbinger.
“At Frazer, we believe the future of healthcare should deliver exceptional medical care directly to the patient, rather than simply transport the patient to care,” said CEO Laura Griffin. “This partnership with Harbinger demonstrates Frazer’s move beyond the traditional ambulance model and into a mobile healthcare solution provider that supports new care delivery models. Hybrid-electric vehicles offer a practical first step toward electrification in emergency and medical environments, while preserving full operational readiness and clinical reliability.”
Frazer and Harbinger plan to build several new mobile healthcare products:
- an emergency medical response vehicle built on Harbinger’s hybrid chassis to support mission-critical reliability, clinical grade power redundancy, and drastically reduced operational complexity;
- a mobile healthcare platform built on Harbinger’s hybrid chassis to support care delivery outside traditional fixed location facilities such as community care facilities and hospital system extensions;
- auxiliary power systems based on Harbinger’s battery technology, providing redundant power for field medical care in both hybrid and ICE vehicles.
Harbinger’s hybrid offering pairs its electric chassis with a gas-powered range extender that recharges the battery when needed. This architecture enables reduced emissions during idling, stable and redundant power delivery for onboard medical equipment, and simplified energy management.
Both Harbinger and Frazer are committed to US manufacturing. Harbinger designs and manufactures its electric and hybrid chassis in-house at its California headquarters, including all major vehicle systems such as the powertrain, battery system, steering, brakes and more. Frazer produces its products in Houston.
“Through this partnership, Harbinger is entering the mobile healthcare and emergency medical response market for the first time,” said John Harris. “Our proprietary platform was designed from the ground up as a modular foundation to support a wide range of commercial and specialty applications. In mobile healthcare, redundancy, uptime and operational flexibility are non-negotiable, and our platform is built to deliver the reliability this market requires.”
Source: Harbinger
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