China’s XEMC continues to see demand for pioneering ultra class full battery trucks
While a lot of the focus on all battery large rigid mining trucks has been on models like Caterpillar’s Early Learner 793 XE – with two units operating at sites in the US and two at a site in Australia – and Hitachi’s EH4000 battery trolley truck at FQM Kansanshi; China’s XEMC has quietly made significant progress in recent years with its battery electric models – the 120 t XEG120E and 220 t XEG220E. In addition, XCMG has announced that its XDE130E Battery is now in production for the domestic market and will be available for the Australian market in 2027.
While XEMC is not the market leader in large rigid mining trucks in China – that accolade falls to NHL and XCMG, as of mid 2025 – XEMC had 10 XEG120E BEV trucks operating in Russia with contractor Stroyservis; 16 XEG120E units operating in Chinese coal with China Coal at the Pingshuo operations in Shanxi; then a further six XEG120Es at a zinc mine in Yunnan Province plus two operating in Brazil with rental and sales company AIZ Group. Two units of the XEG220E truck are operating – one at China Coal Pingshuo and one at a CHN Energy coal mine in Inner Mongolia.
So in total it has 37 battery electric large mining trucks operating in the market. Sometimes these have been sold under its fully owned Igreencle brand.
IM Editorial Director Paul Moore spoke to Jimmy Ji, General Manager about some of the technical and performance aspects. He says that today the battery performance of the LFP modules allows for four to five charges in a 24 hour period for the XEG220E, with each charge taking originally taking one hour; but this has been reduced to 45 minutes thanks to increasing charger power from 1,560 kW to 1,840 kW.
So there is still work to be done, but progress is being made. For example, XEMC has upgraded from the CATL G Battery Pack t the T Battery Pack which offers better lifespan and performance. The G Battery Pack setup it says lasts for three to four years before the state of health SOH drops to 80% while the T Battery Pack lasts for about six years before this happens.
In addition, the mentioned new generation charging station has an integrated transformer to convert 6 kV/10 kV to 380 kV which makes it much more convenient for the site to set up the infrastructure. The XEG120E truck to date has been supplied with two or four charging terminals. The XEG220E so far as there was only one truck per site has been supplied with one terminal, however, it has a robotic charging arm.
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