Boonray has developed an autonomous, battery-swapping electric mining truck and BYD just gave it a multimillion dollar vote ...

Human haul driving is doomed to become a profession of the past, as several pioneers around the world race to scale their autonomous haulage solutions. Among them is China-based Eacon Mining ...

ST. PAUL — Just one of the giant diesel-fueled dump trucks in Minnesota’s iron ore mines emits 2,400 tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of 520 gasoline passenger vehicles. But a ...

ST. PAUL — Just one of the giant diesel-fueled dump trucks in Minnesota’s iron ore mines emits 2,400 tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of 520 gasoline passenger vehicles. But a ...

China has deployed a fleet of autonomous electric mining trucks at the Yimin open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia. The operation, led by state-backed energy giant Huaneng Group, includes 100 unmanned ...

TUBA CITY ― Brown Preston was in his early 20s when he and six of his relatives took jobs at a uranium mine in Uravan, Colorado. It was one of the only good jobs available on the Navajo Nation in the ...

China's Huaneng Group has deployed the world's first fleet of driverless mining trucks. 100 trucks can autonomously load and unload coal. The project kicked off at the Huaneng Yimin open-pit mine in ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — They may not go from zero to 60 in less than three seconds like a Tesla, but enormous electric trucks are generating excitement on northern Minnesota's Iron Range. Utility ...

The Cat 794 AC electric mining truck is now equipped with Cat MineStar Command for autonomous operation. The package allows the haul truck not only be operated autonomously, but also to interact with ...

VIRGINIA, Minn. -- The King of the Lode was an easy one to drive, said Jim Drobnick. "Just like driving a two-story house," said the retired production truck driver from LTV Steel in Hoyt Lakes. It ...

GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. (KGUN) — Caterpillar Inc. is ushering in a new era of mining equipment with its first all-electric mining truck. Consumer vehicles aren’t the only things going electric. The ...