On February 9, coal miner Inner Mongolia Guangna Coal, wide body truck major Shaanxi Tonly Heavy Industry, AHS tech major CiDi, leading battery supplier CATL and smart mine system specialist Jiangsu Hengwang Digital Technology held a signing ceremony for the procurement of 500 all electric and autonomous mining trucks in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia.

This landmark cooperation marks the new stage of large-scale commercial application of electric driverless technology in the mining industry, setting a new benchmark for the green transformation and intelligent upgrading of the mining sector.

A statement said that the five parties “have deeply coordinated and pooled their efforts to create a new process for unmanned mining in all mining processes.” The contracted work includes smart dust removal facilities, plus working together to build an ecosystem of truck plus battery plus AHS intelligence and specific application “all to promote the digitalisation and zero-carbon transformation of green mines. The cooperation will create a nationally leading unmanned, green and intelligent mine-wide mining solution, and fundamentally help to improve the industry pain points of prominent dust pollution and high safety risks in mining.”

Guangna Coal is one of the earliest customers for Tonly Heavy Industries, as the cooperation between the two companies began in 2007, and Tonly says they have “jointly witnessed the full-cycle iterative upgrading of China’s non-highway wide-body dump trucks from traditional mechanical equipment to new energy intelligent equipment, and from small tonnage to large payloads.”

Tonly added: “From the first generation TL3400 to the DTE145, and from traditional diesel fuel to pure electric intelligence, Tonly Heavy Industries has always led the industry with technology, continuously enabling Guangna Coal to solidify the equipment cornerstones of cost reduction and efficiency. Guangna Coal also provides a core application verification scenario for the rapid technological iteration of our products.”

CiDi stated that it will utilise its deep expertise in the field of unmanned driving to provide Guangna Group with technical support for all-mining unmanned and intelligent mining, which is also the key to achieving all-process unmanned mine mining.

In December 2025, CiDi’s autonomous mining trucks already achieved routine unmanned production operations with a diesel truck fleet at Guangna Group’s Hulustai mining area in the Alxa League region of Inner Mongolia.

This latest procurement of 500 pure electric unmanned mining trucks CiDi says represents Guangna Group’s full recognition of its unmanned driving technology and solutions, “marking that CiDi’s full-scale unmanned mining technology has officially entered a new phase of scaled application.”

Previously, Guangna Group had initiated pilot applications of electric intelligent mining trucks. CiDi says this one-time procurement of 500 pure electric unmanned mining trucks “signifies that its scaled application of electric unmanned intelligent mining trucks has officially accelerated. In the future, CiDi says it will continue to deliver core technologies for full-scale unmanned mining, assisting Guangna Group in gradually promoting a ‘new model of mining operations,’ improving the ecological environment of mines in Wuhai and surrounding areas, and leading the mining industry towards high-quality development characterised by zero carbon, digital intelligence, and safety.

The five company cooperation the partners believe can greatly reduce carbon emissions and operating costs for haulage as well as increasing safety and efficiency of the mine, and provide core equipment based support for the implementation of a smart mine and green mine strategy.

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