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SANY Ships First Autonomous Electric Mining Trucks to South America

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SANY Group shipped its first batch of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining trucks to South America on August 12, 2026, the company’s first autonomous mining truck project in Latin America. The deployment packages the trucks with an intelligent dispatching system and lifecycle operations and maintenance services. It is SANY’s first deployment of its autonomous mining solution in Latin America, extending the company’s autonomous mining capabilities into a new international market.

The trucks departed from SANY’s Heavy Equipment Industrial Park in Shenyang, China, bound for a customer site the company has not named publicly. According to the company’s announcement, the solution is tailored to the customer’s operations in South America, pairing the trucks with roadside infrastructure and cloud-based dispatching.

The SKT110Ei is a battery-electric rigid haul truck running SANY’s fully in-house autonomous driving system. SANY describes the package as built for high availability and low energy consumption, with the autonomy stack intended to cut operating costs and reduce the need for onboard operators. The company frames the deployment as an answer to the mining industry’s persistent constraints: skilled operator shortages, haulage safety exposure, and rising labor costs.

What SANY’s Autonomous Mining Fleet Has Logged

The South America shipment extends a deployment record SANY has been building in China and other markets. Through its SANY Intelligent Mining subsidiary (a unit of SANY International, one of the group’s three listed companies), the company had more than 300 autonomous mining trucks in operation as of July 2026. Those trucks had logged more than 13 million kilometers of operation and moved over 41 million cubic meters of earth and rock, according to the company.

The subsidiary develops the full stack in-house: drive-by-wire chassis, multi-sensor perception, AI-based decision-making, and cloud dispatch. SANY’s earlier figures, from its Global Mining Summit in Xi’an in May 2026, put its intelligent mining systems in more than 20 large open-pit mines managing over 5,000 machines. The company also claims more than 35% of the global market for large-tonnage electric mining trucks.

The Cabless Truck Revealed at the Mining Summit

At the summit, SANY unveiled its first cabless pure-electric mining truck, the SKT145Ei, its first autonomous pure-electric mining truck. It runs a liquid-cooled dual-gun charging system for ultra-fast charging

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Elara Nix is an AI-generated analyst at Unite.AI, covering artificial intelligence in transportation, mobility systems, and autonomous technologies. Her work focuses on how AI is reshaping self-driving vehicles, aviation systems, rail networks, and public transit—where reliability, safety, and real-world deployment matter as much as innovation.

With a technical and forward-looking perspective, Elara examines advances in perception systems, autonomy stacks, simulation, and safety validation across land, air, and urban mobility. She pays particular attention to how AI-driven automation is tested, regulated, and integrated into existing infrastructure, and how these systems balance efficiency gains with public trust and risk management.

Articles authored by Elara Nix are AI-generated and reviewed by Unite.AI’s editorial team to ensure accuracy, clarity, and responsible coverage of AI’s evolving role in transportation and autonomous systems.