Development of Autonomous Trucks in the Global Mining Sector, 2025

The popularity of autonomous haul trucks is continuing to grow across surface mines, with miners taking advantage of improvements to productivity; reductions in accidents and operating costs; increased machine life and tyre life and lower fuel consumption.

As of July, 2025, GlobaData’s Mining Intelligence Center was tracking 3,832 autonomous haul trucks operating on surface mines across the globe. This figure includes both those that are autonomous-ready as well as running autonomously.

The largest population of autonomous trucks is in China with 2,090, followed by Australia, Canada and Chile.

Key Highlights

• The largest population of autonomous trucks is in China with 2,090, followed by Australia, Canada and Chile.
• CHN ENERGY Investment Group (China Energy) accounts for the largest number of autonomous trucks, followed by Guanghui Energy, BHP and Rio Tinto.
• Caterpillar is the leading OEM, and Komatsu is in second place. Chinese OEMs Tonly and LGMG are in third and fourth places. These four OEMs together account for 88% of the known brands tracked by the analyst.

Scope

• The report analyses the development of autonomous haul trucks in the mining industry, tracking additions over time and specifying the exact brands and models used across each mine. Future plans for further additions or introductions of AHS are included as well as details of the benefits achieved from the use of autonomous trucks by miners.

Reasons to Buy

• Track the development of autonomous haul trucks in the mining sector.
• Drill down to numbers of autonomous trucks by brand and model at each mine
• Compare the use of autonomous trucks by mining company
• Identify the benefits achieved from the use of autonomous trucks by miners.
• View future plans for the introduction of autonomous trucks by mine.