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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 […]

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 […]

On June 25th, Li Zhenya, general manager of the BU MDC product department of Huawei’s smart car solution, Yang Sanjiu, director of the product management department, and Li Zhe, director of ecology, and others visited the Zhundong Open-pit Coal Mine of China Energy Group, where Eacon is located, for operational site investigation. Li Zhenya spoke […]

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 […]

To meet the heavy load of mine haulage and the long battery life of continuous operation, mining vehicles have always been considered as a very important application scenario of hydrogen battery. Recently, the industry’s first hydrogen dump truck led by Tongli was unveiled at the 2021 United Nations Development Program Hydrogen Energy Industry Conference. At […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Recently, the Open-Pit Mining Technology Magazine published a paper titled “Realization Way and benefit advantage analysis of autonomous haulage system of mining truck” by Sun Qingshan, a researcher at Eacon. The strong response has triggered extensive discussions on the application of autonomous driving technology in mining area. “Open-pit Mining Technology” was founded in 1985. It […]