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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

China represents one of the largest markets in the world for autonomous haulage – involving automation of both rigid mining trucks as well as so-called wide body trucks. TAGE Idriver and WAYTOUS are now quite well known in this market as key tech providers, but there are also other up and coming players with new […]