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EACON proudly announces the achievement of 500+ days of safe operations with its Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) project at the Zhundong Open-Pit Coal Mine, setting a new benchmark for autonomous driving in open-pit mines. This milestone presents EACON’s commitment to safety and reliability, demonstrating the capability of its autonomous solution to operate effectively even in […]

EACON Mining Technology proudly announces a significant milestone. As an Autonomous Haulage Solution pioneer, EACON is operating the world’s largest fleet of autonomous mine trucks within a single mine, totaling 203 vehicles. This impressive fleet now constitutes nearly 40% of the total truck fleet at the mine. This achievement underscores the robust capabilities of EACON’s […]

EACON held a launch ceremony for the deployment of 100 hybrid autonomous mining trucks.

Fuel-related expenses constitute a substantial portion, approximately 40%, of the overall haulage costs in surface mining operations. In response to the growing need for a greener and more sustainable future, there is a pressing demand to minimize fuel consumption. Emerging as a viable solution to this challenge, autonomous hybrid electric trucks, exemplified by the 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]