Perth, May 9, 2025 – Thiess, Norton Gold Fields (NGF), and EACON Mining Technology have officially launched a groundbreaking tripartite partnership to deploy autonomous haulage technology in Australia. The formal agreement was signed during a ceremony held in Melbourne,

16/06/2020

The former hardware director of Ali ET Lab joined Eacon

Autonomous mining star company Eacon welcomes heavyweight personnel to join. Recently, Eacon announced that Dr. Lin Qiao, the former hardware director of Ali Cainiao Network ET Laboratory, officially joined the company as a partner in April of this year and is now serving as the Vice President of System Engineering. Prior to this, Lin Qiao […]
June 16, 2020

Eacon received tens of millions of yuan in PreA round of financing, invested exclusively by Zijin Mining’s shareholder Xinghang State-owned Investment Co., Ltd.

On July 28, Eacon officially announced that the company has completed the PreA round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, fully funded by Xinghang Guotou, which is the shareholder of the domestic mining giant Zijin Mining Group. The cooperation between the two parties can be described as meaningful. According to Eacon, the financing […]
July 28, 2020

Yes! We have completed Pre-A round and A round of financing within half a year

In short, we have completed the A round of financing at the end of last year. This round of financing was jointly led by NIO Capital and Eight Roads Capital. It is mainly used to speed up the productization progress of the autonomous system in open-pit mines, establish a Shanghai office, recruit talents, and prepare […]
February 24, 2021

Industry’s First hydrogen-powered wide-body Vehicle lands for testing, Eacon appears to be ahead in hydrogen energy application

On May 13th, a significant breakthrough was achieved in the application of hydrogen energy in the mining scene. The first hydrogen battery off-road wide-body dump truck (referred to as “hydrogen wide-body vehicle”) of Eacon officially landed for testing and operation at Baoli Coal Mine in Inner Mongolia. This is the mining industry’s first hydrogen haulage […]
May 13, 2022

Velocity and efficiency, Eacon achieve the real operation of trucks without safety personnel on a regular basis

With the rapid development of technology, core technologies represented by autonomous driving are bringing human society into a brand-new era of smart driving. Open-pit mines, as representative scenarios for autonomous driving technology, are also moving towards the direction of L4 autonomous haulage commercialization. Recently, Eacon, a leading provider of autonomous solutions in mining areas, has […]
July 14, 2022

A batch of pure electric mining trucks were delivered to the Honghe Baili mining area in Zoucheng – inauguration of zero emission in mine of China

On December 28, the delivery ceremony of YTK90E pure electric autonomous mining trucks was successfully held in Zoucheng, Shandong. Yu Xiangfeng, deputy general manager of Shandong Honghe Baili Mining Co., Ltd., Ke Sheng, general manager of Sinoma Construction Yanzhou Co., Ltd., Yu Zhiqiang, general manager of Yutong Mining Equipment, and Zhang Lei, chairman of Eacon, […]
December 28, 2022

EACON to deploy an additional 100 autonomous mining vehicles at the South Pit

In November 2020, the EACON autonomous driving project with the South Pit of TBEA embarked on a journey of safe operations that has now surpassed 30 months. We proudly announce the upcoming deployment of 100 new hybrid trucks, marking a significant milestone in our expansion. We collaborated closely with the OEM to design and build these […]
June 19, 2023

Chinese auto mining fast mover EACON to bring battery AHS to Australia

EACON Mining, one of the leading players in open pit autonomous mining fleet technology in China, has announced the establishment of EACON Australia in Perth. As a subsidiary of EACON Mining, it says the entity’s primary objective is to provide superior services tailored to the Australian market’s needs. A statement continued: “Our expansion into Australia […]
June 12, 2023

Eacon and partners establish electric AHS haulage fleet at Fushan Quarry

In September 2022, Honghe Baili, Sinoma, Eacon, and Yutong Mining Truck reached an agreement to jointly run a ‘5G + green electricity + electric trucks + autonomous driving’ project at Fushan Quarry, with the aim for it become the first zero emission and smart mine in China. Over two months after commissioning, 20 battery electric […]
June 2, 2023

Autonomous fleet tech company EACON collaborates with LiDAR supplier Innovusion

Founded in 2016 in Sunnyvale, California, Innovusion is a leading global provider of LiDAR sensor systems. As part of a new strategic cooperation agreement, Innovusion is to provide its image-grade ultra long-range Falcon LiDAR system to the growing Chinese automonous mine haulage technology company, EACON. The deal was signed by EACON VP Lin Qiao and […]
March 21, 2023

TBEA’s South open pit coal mine with Eacon autonomy gets national recognition

Following an on-site assessment by the National Intelligent Coal Mine Expert Panel, TBEA’s South open pit coal mine, operated by its subsidiary Tianchi Energy, has been designated one of China’s first batch of ‘National Intelligent Coal Mines’. The South open-pit mine is a large coal operation in the northwest of China with a production capacity […]
March 14, 2023

Yutong and EACON begin delivery of an all electric, autonomous mining truck fleet in Shandong

On December 28, a batch delivery ceremony of Yutong YTK90E all electric autonomous wide body mining trucks was held in Zoucheng, Shandong Province in eastern China. The mining trucks were jointly developed by Yutong Mining Equipment and autonomous driving technology company EACON, and will be put into use at a limestone mining project of Shandong […]
January 2, 2023