This EV could restart Medium-Duty Trucking by not reinventing the wheel

However, the experience is almost the same in motion. You are high, stunning by the clatter and a pony of the empty, boxy body, that, again, is built exactly on a traditional truck. The feedback is so hard that it is actually difficult to separate the overall rich quality of the truck. Yet it is even unprecedented, and therefore at its hardest, it is a much smoother drive than the Ford.

It is also easier to turn. The harbinger offers 50 degrees steering angle at the front. I took off my first U-turn in a narrow, suburbs La Street fast enough so as not to honk by even a single impatient Angelino.

In the end, it was not the soft, tranquil experience offered by your average electric sedan, but that is not the point. By keeping everything familiar, Harbinger CEO John Harris told me that Harbinger can offer a product with price parity to those old, diesel-driven machines. Harris refused to offer formal prices, but its affordability is at least partially dependent on federal stimuli.

Alternatively, by means of Medium-Duty vehicles such as Harbinger's are eligible for the commercial clean vehicle credit 45 W, which offers incentives up to $ 40,000, depending on the vehicle size and the propulsion type.

“Where we praise the vehicles, we need that 45 W if we want to undermine diesel, and that's what we do,” said Harris. “With 45 W we can undermine the typical diesel vehicle with a few thousand dollars.”

But even if that credit leaves under the current administration, Harbinger has some price flexibility to remain competitive, he added.

That is double where if you take the operating costs into account. Harris says that the average costs for operating a medium service vehicle if this are $ 0.50 per mile are for fuel, or $ 0.85 if you take all costs related to the vehicle itself. Harbinger wants to halve that, aimed at $ 0.40 per mile. But, says Harris, Harbinger does not have to lean on that total cloga (TCO) logic.