On October 28, the twenty first China Worldwide Coal Mining Know-how Trade and Tools Exhibition opened in Beijing. Mining truck OEM Tonly Heavy Industries and main agnostic autonomous haulage expertise supplier EACON launched the EQ100E, a distributed drive, all battery electrical, autonomous and cabless mining truck.
A lot of these vehicles are gathering momentum in China – earlier this 12 months XCMG showcased a fleet of 100 ‘Huaneng Ruichi’ all electrical, cabless and autonomous mining vehicles working on the Yimin coal mine it developed with Huawei and State Grid Sensible Web of Automobiles Co Ltd for buyer Huaneng Inside Mongolia Japanese Vitality Co Ltd.
Key options of the brand new EQ100E embody a 100-ton (91 t) payload; 8 cameras and 4 LiDARs for 360° notion; distributed electrical drive (1 MW energy) with 35% improved slope-climbing; a redundant hydraulic brake system with 5% shorter stopping distance; 801/1,056 kWh battery choices supporting each charging and swapping; plus the driverless design ensures bodily isolation from hazardous environments.
The EQ100E, which is launched with “correct sight, quick operating, braking and secure steering” as its core benefits, integrates distributed drive, pure electrical zero-carbon expertise and an all-terrain unmanned management system to attain the next stage of operational economic system, environmental adaptability and important security in complicated mine eventualities. It’s outfitted with an all-weather terrain sensing system, a megawatt-scale full-time electrical drive, an all-hydraulic redundant braking system and clever torque vector management, and achieves real-time optimisation of financial velocity planning and microscopic dynamic torque coordination by means of the mixture of clever vitality administration and cloud scheduling.
In attendance on the launch had been Zhang Jianming, Vice-Chairman of the China Coal Society; Kong Liang, Below-Secretary-Normal of the China Mining Security Assocation; Liu Lilong, Secretary-Normal for the Mines Skilled Committee of the China Cement Affiliation; Li Hongzhu, Dean of the College of Digital Management at Liaoning College of Engineering and Know-how; Wang Quanjia, Vice Chairman of Inside Mongolia Guangna Coal Trade (Group) Restricted; Feng Junying, Head of the Materials Procurement Division of China Metallurgical Group Copper and Zinc Co Ltd; Bosko Bacic, from the Stanari Thermal Energy Plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a part of Serbia’s EFT Group, and lots of different business consultants and representatives from varied enterprises.
Kong Liang, Deputy Secretary Normal of China Mining Security Affiliation, emphasised in his speech that the promotion of “mechanised alternative, automomy-driven discount of personnel, clever and unmanned” have grow to be the business consensus and are driving agency insurance policies to enhance the important ranges of mine security. The assertion mentioned that the discharge of the EQ100E clearly reveals that unmanned mining has moved from the technical verification stage to a brand new period of constructing a mature, replicable systematic answer.
Xu Yanan, Founder and main shareholder of Tonly Heavy Trade, mentioned that the discharge of EQ100E is the results of steady innovation. He mentioned mine transportation has formally entered a brand new stage of distributed energy, pure electrical drive and driverless operation, bringing a brand new paradigm for safer, extra environment friendly and greener transport in mining.
In his speech, Lin Qiao, EACON Mining VP, identified that true unmanned driving means utilizing a totally new unmanned truck design from the underlying structure, management logic and working mode. He mentioned the EQ100E permits protected and environment friendly operation of an unmanned mining truck in a fancy mining surroundings as a result of it solves the primary challenges at a genetic stage.
As of September 2025, greater than 2,000 Tonly autonomous mining vehicles are in operation. Tonly was the pioneer of China’s wide-body dump vehicles in mining, and its merchandise have been exported to greater than 50 international locations world wide – greater than 60,000 models. Because the launch of strategic cooperation in 2019, Tonly and EACON say they’ve continued to inject innovation impetus into the business, and the launch of the EQ100E represents one other essential milestone within the highway of selling the clever transformation and upgrading of mines.
Sooner or later, EACON says it’s going to work with Tonly and extra eco-partners to collectively develop key technological developments and normal programs. “The unmanned transportation of mines will transfer from single level breakthroughs to system integration, serving to China’s mining business obtain a safer, greener and extra environment friendly high-quality growth.”
