Milestone: Newman's NKH150i Helps Ordos Mining Area Deploy First Large-Scale Au
October 25,2026
Recently, Newman Group completed delivery of its NKH150i methanol-range-extended autonomous truck — a landmark project marking the first large-scale deployment of Newman's NKH150i methanol-range-extended autonomous drive in Ordos. After two years of stable on-site operation validation, the customer experienced the comprehensive value of the equipment and chose to place additional orders. From initial cooperation intent to batch vehicle delivery took only one month, efficiently meeting the customer's needs.
Guided by the deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan for Coal Industry Development," the state continues to advance the construction of coal supply-guarantee bases in Shanxi, western Inner Mongolia, eastern Inner Mongolia, northern Shaanxi and Xinjiang, building large modern coal mines to high standards while promoting AI and green clean-energy applications.
The 15th Five-Year Plan for Coal Industry Development
The delivered customer is a small and medium-sized open-pit mine in Ordos facing multiple challenges: limited mining scale, high grid-infrastructure cost, long transport routes and complex site roads. Pure-electric mining trucks are constrained by power-supply conditions, making retrofit difficult; meanwhile the region's coal-power coupling makes a methanol-range-extended solution especially suitable.
The first NKH150i methanol-range-extended autonomous wide-body dump truck deployed in Ordos is purpose-built for intelligent open-pit mining.
Fast Vehicle Delivery, Easy Deployment
Newman Technology now has mature drive-by-wire chassis technology that can be quickly integrated with autonomous-driving systems. From intent to vehicle delivery in just one month, it helped the customer bring the autonomous project online and reach profitability sooner.
Vehicle-Wide Intelligent Coordination — Autonomous Operation in Complex Mines
With deep joint tuning of the autonomous system and powertrain, the vehicle can autonomously handle driving, obstacle avoidance, platooning and intelligent dispatch, operating stably on undulating, variable unpaved mine roads. The system senses the surroundings in real time, reducing manual intervention and on-site safety-management pressure.
Intelligent Control, Better Energy Efficiency
Relying on vehicle-wide intelligent power-management strategy, the autonomous system automatically adjusts the range-extender output by road condition and load to achieve optimal fuel economy. Compared with traditional fuel mining trucks, it effectively cuts fuel consumption and directly reduces the customer's daily transport cost.
Strong Under Heavy Load, Ensuring High-Utilization Returns
The vehicle is equipped with a 65 m³ large-capacity body and a 13-litre range-extender engine, delivering ample power for heavy climbing. The intelligent system continuously ensures stable utilization and rising mine transport capacity, safeguarding the customer's production stability.
Intelligent equipment also needs reliable service assurance to free the customer from worries.
Relying on Newman's localized service system, professional teams are stationed on site, with vehicle maintenance and fault repair fully covered. A complete energy ecosystem plus after-sales service system keeps the whole intelligent transport system running uninterrupted and extends utilization time. Autonomous driving reduces dependence on driver positions, lowers labor cost and continuously optimizes energy consumption, bringing the customer tangible comprehensive economic benefits.
Newman Methanol Skid Station
What Newman provides customers is not just hardware but a complete, deployable intelligent-mine integrated solution — from skid-station construction and autonomous-driving deployment/debugging to full-cycle on-site operation and maintenance, connecting the entire mine extraction-and-transport chain. For mining areas in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang with coal-power coupling and difficult grid support, the methanol-range-extended autonomous solution is especially advantageous: no huge investment in mine power networks is needed, and customers can deploy intelligent retrofits at low cost and high speed — ideal for small and medium-sized open-pit mines.
Currently Newman Technology has multiple autonomous-driving projects in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and elsewhere.
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