A Chinese tech firm unveiled its latest generation of purpose-built autonomous electric mining trucks last week, marking a significant step toward reshaping the landscape of global mining operations.
Breton Technology showed its new electric mining truck on Nov 21 in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.
Equipped with a self-developed intelligent driving system, the truck has removed the cabin from its design and is realizing automated safe and stable operation throughout the entire loading, transportation, and unloading process.
"We've made some integrated innovations to our sensors, designing and developing them in-house. This significantly improves the reliability and stability of the sensors and increases the vehicle's uptime. For the autonomous driving algorithms, we've adopted the same end-to-end large-scale model technologies currently used in passenger vehicles. These technologies are among the first used in autonomous driving for mining trucks," said Chen Fangming, chairman of Breton.
Approximately 10 meters long, 5.2 meters wide, and 4.8 meters high, the vehicle has a maximum load capacity of 351 tons.
Chen noted that the company's electric mining trucks, developed and manufactured this year, have been exported to several African countries, with 31 units already in use.
Industry insiders said that the production of this truck marks that China's unmanned mining trucks have moved from the phase of technological demonstration to mass production, thus providing a safer, more economical, and greener future production method for the global mining industry.
Founded in November 2016 and headquartered in Shanghai, Breton is mainly engaged in the research, development, production and sales of pure electric loaders, electric mining trucks and electric tractors.
China-made autonomous electric mining truck makes public debut
China-made autonomous electric mining truck makes public debut
China-made autonomous electric mining truck makes public debut
