MINExpo International '09.2021

For Release Worldwide: September 2021

Since the Cat® 794 AC electric drive truck debuted at MINExpo 2016, the global fleet has logged more than 780,000 hours of field operation, averaging physical availability of 90%. Offering up to 8% better payload and faster speed-on-grade, the 794 AC delivers up to 10% more productivity than competitive trucks. The 794 AC truck field fleet has tripled over the last two years to more than 150 units with the highest-hour truck logging more than 52,000 hours. They are working in coal and hard rock, deep pit and flat haul sites at low and high altitudes and operating in poor underfoot conditions in nine countries covering four continents.

In 2021, the Cat 794 AC returns to MINExpo, as the latest autonomous mining truck equipped with Cat® MineStar™ Command for hauling, an autonomous hauling solution. The 794 AC is the first electric drive model to join the expanding Command for autonomous haulage fleet, which includes the Cat 789D, 793D, 793F and 797F models.

The first autonomous 794 AC electric drive mining trucks are being deployed in South America. In Chile, the first of 28 autonomous 794 AC trucks began arriving in May 2021 to be part of Teck Resources Limited’s low-cost, long-life Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 (QB2) copper project. ­­

At the Quellaveco copper mine operated by Anglo American in the Moquequa Region of southern Peru, sixteen 794 AC trucks have been deployed and will reach a total of 27 trucks by 2022.

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