In the wave of global green development, the "dual carbon" strategic goal has pointed out the direction for the development of all walks of life. As far as construction machinery is concerned, a revolution to accelerate the transformation of new energy and promote green development is rapidly unfolding in the industry.

Recently, the world's first mining hybrid excavator XE650GK HEV was officially launched. In today's era of high-quality development of new quality productivity, XCMG's launch of high-end and green new products is just in time.

Further fill the gap in new energy equipment

Mining equipment, as a high-end sector of China's manufacturing, is the most promising and technologically advanced field in the global construction machinery industry. With the continuous rise in the value of the global mining industry, higher demands have been placed on mining equipment. In recent years, mining equipment has become more and more high-end and more environmentally friendly.

"The XE650GK HEV launched this time is our green solution for mining conditions. It is a new product specially provided for high-end customers. It will further fill the gap in the field of new energy excavation machinery in domestic and foreign mines and lead the development direction of energy-saving technology in the industry." At the offline event, relevant personnel from XCMG said.

It is reported that this new product with a "green mountain" appearance will become the core equipment for the construction of national green mines. Compared with traditional mining excavators, XE650GK HEV adopts advanced parallel hybrid technology and achieves 4 key technological breakthroughs. This innovation not only ensures efficient and reliable mining operations, but also has significant advantages in energy conservation, emission reduction, and reducing operating costs. Shan Zenghai, chief engineer and vice president of XCMG Machinery, said that the application of hybrid technology in medium and large tonnage excavators will complement the advantages of pure electric products, especially for excavators of 65 tons and above, which can save about 300,000 yuan in operating fees each year.

At present, global mining equipment still faces the problem of "lack of high-end products and homogeneity of low-end and medium-end products", which restricts the overall development of the mining industry. Faced with the pain points of the industry and fierce competition among manufacturers, XCMG actively responded to the call for national technological innovation, expanded from the low-end to the high-end of the industry, and achieved high-quality supply through differentiated innovative products to fill new market needs.

It can be seen from the world's first hybrid mining product and technology that high-end, green and efficient have become the development direction of mining equipment.

Leading the new trend of green development in the industry

Green development is the background of high-quality development, and new quality productivity itself is green productivity. At present, the transformation of traditional mining machinery to new energy electrification is the general trend. As a leader in new energy products in the industry, XCMG has actively laid out the new energy track and walked at the forefront of the electrification of engineering machinery.

It is understood that XCMG has systematically planned new energy low-carbon technology routes such as new energy electric, hybrid, and hydrogen energy, vigorously developed complete sets of new energy products and hydrogen fuel cell systems, and continuously increased the market share of green products. In addition, it has independently integrated 140kW hydrogen fuel cell systems in the three major fields of mining, logistics, and automobiles. At present, XCMG's new energy engineering machinery has covered more than 300 models in 10 categories.

Taking mining equipment as an example, in recent years, in response to the complex working conditions and harsh working environment of mines, XCMG has continuously launched new energy mining machinery with innovative breakthroughs, which has greatly improved the efficiency of mine construction and further promoted the sustainable construction of green mines. For example, a series of new energy products such as the "mining giant" 400-ton electric hydraulic excavator XE4000E, XCMG XC968-EV pure electric loader, and the world's first 240-ton intelligent hybrid heavy-duty mining truck XDE240H have been welcomed by the market as soon as they were launched. With high-quality products and equipment and high-standard all-weather services, XCMG, as the upstream of the mining industry chain, has become a mainstream mining equipment supplier in the world.

Data shows that in 2023, the proportion of new energy use in XCMG machinery will account for 19.64%, and the revenue of new energy products will increase by 108.9% year-on-year, doubling for two consecutive years and contributing nearly 10%. In the field of mining machinery, about 20% of XCMG's mining equipment products are new energy products, and it plans to provide new energy options for half of its mining machinery product lines.

At the two sessions in 2024, the concept of "new quality productivity" was proposed. How to develop new quality productivity and break out in the increasingly competitive engineering machinery industry? High-end and green are XCMG's effective practices in this regard. The launch of the world's first hybrid mining excavator demonstrates XCMG's commitment to green, low-carbon and energy-saving development, and creates a new benchmark for the development of the mining equipment industry.