2025-04-27 BY
IN Industry trends
The development of any industry cannot be separated from the participation of all industry players. Yikong Intelligent Driving has achieved development beyond the industry in 2024, with a market share of 42.5%, ranking first in the industry, and is a typical representative enterprise of the mining unmanned driving track. In 2024, the development of Easy Control intelligent driving can be seen from three data points:
·The number of empowered mining trucks has reached 1000, accounting for 8.3% of the total number of newly added mining trucks in open-pit mines in 2024. From the comparison of various scenarios of unmanned driving, the number of easy to control intelligent driving unmanned mine trucks is equal to the number of Apollo Go vehicles.
2024 Yikong Intelligent Driving and Unmanned Mining Truck Operation Results
·There are more than 20 normalized operation projects, covering all types of coal mines, non-ferrous metal mines, limestone mines, and black metal mines. We have cooperated with large mining and steel groups such as National Energy Group, State Power Investment Group, TBEA, Zijin Mining, Baowu Group, and Shougang Group, with a customer repurchase rate of 100%.
·The volume of operations reached 161 million cubic meters, of which 15 million cubic meters were coal mining operations. In some projects, the proportion of unmanned mining truck operations in the total business volume exceeded 50%, significantly improving operational efficiency. Thus, unmanned driving in mines has achieved a transformation from technological strength to productivity.
According to publicly available information, Yikong Intelligent Driving is not the earliest mining unmanned driving company established in China, but it has achieved overtaking on curves in recent years. When it comes to the reasons behind it, Lin Qiao believes that the ability of Yikong Intelligent Driving to become a platform based product with strong adaptability and extremely strong execution capabilities, and to achieve normalized unmanned operation.
Unmanned mining truck fleet conducting coal mining operations
Based on this, Yikong Intelligent Driving has launched the third-generation distributed technology architecture – the mining unmanned driving solution “Daoshan”, which includes cloud based cluster global scheduling, autonomous decision-making and collaborative vehicles, and an unmanned driving line control development platform. This solution can systematically solve many difficulties and pain points in mining scenarios. In response to the requirement for absolute safety in mines, Yikong Intelligent Driving insists on comprehensively improving from the perspectives of technical safety, process safety, and operational safety.
Strong delivery capability is another important driving force for the rapid development of Easy Control Intelligent Driving. In years of practice, it has established a comprehensive standardized service system, such as an efficient and executable delivery system and a professional training system that can be learned and used immediately.
Key words for mine autonomous driving in 2025: strong supply and demand
Looking ahead to the development of mine autonomous driving in 2025, two key words are given by Easy Control Intelligent Driving. Firstly, there is a strong supply and demand situation. From the supply side, the stability of technology and products can meet the daily production needs of mines, and it has the ability to quickly replicate; From the demand side, the intelligent, safe, and green transformation of traditional mines is becoming increasingly urgent, and unmanned driving is a key part of it. At the same time, mining companies are beginning to recognize the production capacity of unmanned driving. Another keyword is AI increment. With the support of AI, new incremental opportunities will emerge in the field of autonomous driving, achieving both horizontal and vertical growth in the industry chain.
Based on this background, Lin Qiao provided a more accurate analysis of the development of mine autonomous driving from the perspective of industrial development. He believes that by 2025, the number of unmanned mining trucks landing in China will exceed 5000, and the penetration rate of unmanned driving in newly added mining trucks will reach 20%.
Focusing on individual enterprises, in the accelerated opening of the market space in 2025, Yikong Intelligent Driving will further clarify its strategic positioning, that is, with unmanned driving technology as the core, empowering the development of the entire industry chain, and collaborating with the industry chain to enter a new era of intelligence. Lin Qiao conducted a detailed analysis of this strategic positioning, pointing out that Yikong Intelligent Driving will take unmanned driving technology as its core, adhere to the dual drive of product and service capabilities, and work together in domestic and overseas markets to empower the entire industry chain through innovative technologies and new product layouts.
Looking ahead to 2025, the prelude to the large-scale application of unmanned driving technology in mines has slowly begun. Yikong Intelligent Driving will adhere to its original intention, uphold the concept of people-oriented, and use AI as a new productive force to accelerate the intelligent transformation of traditional mines.