SANY shipped its first batch of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining trucks to South America on 12 August 2026, marking the company’s first autonomous mining truck project in Latin America. The trucks left SANY’s Heavy Equipment Industrial Park in Shenyang, China, heading for a customer site that the company has not publicly identified.
The deployment packages the autonomous electric mining trucks with an intelligent dispatching system alongside lifecycle operations and maintenance services. According to SANY, the solution has been tailored to the customer’s South American operations and pairs the trucks with roadside infrastructure and cloud-based dispatching.
SKT110Ei Trucks Combine Electric Power and Automation
The SKT110Ei is a battery-electric rigid haul truck equipped with SANY’s fully in-house autonomous driving system. The company describes the package as built for high availability and low energy consumption. The autonomy stack is intended to cut operating costs and reduce the need for onboard operators, according to SANY.
SANY frames the deployment of these autonomous electric mining trucks as a response to persistent challenges in the mining industry. These include shortages of skilled operators, safety exposure during haulage operations, and rising labour costs. The solution delivered to South America brings together electric mining trucks, autonomous haulage capability, and intelligent dispatching into a single integrated package.
The in-house technology stack behind the autonomous mining equipment includes drive-by-wire chassis, multi-sensor perception, AI-based decision-making, and cloud dispatch. SANY develops the full stack through its intelligent mining subsidiary.
SANY Expands Autonomous Mining Deployment
The South America shipment extends a deployment record that SANY has been building across China and other markets. As of July 2026, the company said it had more than 300 autonomous mining trucks in operation. Those trucks had logged more than 13 million kilometres of operation and moved over 41 million cubic metres of earth and rock, according to SANY.
At its Global Mining Summit held in Xi’an in May 2026, SANY reported that its intelligent mining systems were operating in more than 20 large open-pit mines and managing over 5,000 machines. The company also claimed more than 35 per cent of the global market for large-tonnage electric mining trucks.
During the same summit, SANY unveiled its first cabless pure-electric mining truck, the SKT145Ei. That vehicle runs a liquid-cooled dual-gun charging system designed for ultra-fast charging, representing a further step in the company’s electric and autonomous mining equipment development.
The shipment of autonomous electric mining trucks to South America extends SANY’s mining automation technology into Latin America for the first time. With its integrated approach combining battery-electric haulage, autonomous driving, and intelligent dispatching, the company is positioning its mining technology for broader international deployment.