Sep 4, 2026 – 5.00amXuzhou | I am sitting at the controls of a machine roughly the size of a house, staring at two touch screens that would not look out of place in an electric car.This is XCMG’s GR350EP, an 18-foot (5½-metre) electric grader being developed in partnership with Australian iron ore giant Fortescue Metals to electrify the heavy machinery used across its Pilbara mines.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
I drove Fortescue’s giant electric mining machines in China
The Australian miner is betting hundreds of millions of dollars on electric mining machinery. We climbed aboard the giant prototypes going through their paces in China.
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