Freight Rates Remain Low: XCMG 600-kWh Standard-Load Battery-Swap Tractor Helps Chongqing Sand and Gravel Fleet Break Through

　　Chongqing is a nationally important production base for sand and gravel materials. Every day, tens of thousands of tonnes of sand and gravel aggregates are transported from here to across the country, but over the past two years, infrastructure construction has slowed and freight rates have continued to run at low levels. Fleets must both maintain transport capacity and reduce costs. Switching to more efficient transport tools has changed from an option into a must-answer question.

　　Under this situation, a large sand and gravel transport fleet purchased more than 50 XCMG 600-kWh standard-load battery-swap tractor units in succession, using green upgrading to protect profit margins.

Efficient operations keep the transport rhythm going.

　　Road transport is the customer's main operating scenario. Vehicles load at mines and travel via national roads and expressways to mixing plants or ports, with a single round trip of 80–100 km and 4–5 trips per day. This tight transport rhythm is a huge challenge to vehicle operating efficiency. XCMG battery-swap tractor units safeguard efficient and stable customer operations with high uptime and fast energy replenishment.

　　Stable uptime, stable returns. The customer is located in Chongqing, which has a subtropical monsoon humid climate, with high temperatures and high humidity, compounded by continuous uphill climbs, which greatly tests the heat dissipation capability of the three-electric system. XCMG battery-swap tractor units are equipped with an intelligent battery thermal management system, which heats and cools faster and controls temperature more precisely, effectively maintaining the temperature of the three-electric system within a suitable operating range.

　　No anxiety over energy replenishment, operations do not stop. The integrated charging and battery-swapping battery supports dual-mode energy replenishment. In fast-charging mode, SOC 20%-80% takes only 40 minutes; in battery-swap mode, replenishment takes only 3–5 minutes. The two modes provide efficient and flexible replenishment, allowing replenishment during stops and rest without squeezing operating time.

Technological cost reduction leaves room for profit.

　　XCMG battery-swap tractor units not only ensure uninterrupted transport rhythm, but also truly reduce costs for customers. Since switching to XCMG battery-swap tractor units, the customer's energy consumption cost per kilometer has saved more than one yuan compared with the past, saving more than 100,000 yuan a year.

　　The costs saved by XCMG battery-swap tractor units lie not only in the oil-electricity price difference, but also in the efficient utilization of energy recovery. The customer's transport route has many uphill and downhill sections. XCMG's self-developed six-level scenario-adaptive energy recovery intelligently adjusts recovery intensity according to the scenario, maximizing the use of energy originally wasted on downhill sections. The vehicle's comprehensive energy consumption is 5-10% lower than the industry.

Comprehensive protection builds a solid foundation for operations.

　　In road transport, the biggest fear is encountering problems halfway. XCMG Automobile not only improves vehicle reliability with solid materials and hardcore protection technology, but also provides customers with 24-hour rescue services. Even late at night, with just one phone call, XCMG service engineers immediately rush to the site.

　　In addition to providing the most solid operational guarantee, XCMG also provides customers with a digital operation platform—XCMG eLutong. Through the platform, customers can not only grasp the real-time location of vehicles and dispatch more accurately and quickly, but also retrieve energy consumption data and driving records of each vehicle, providing a data basis for drivers to optimize driving habits.

　　Products build a solid foundation, services warm the journey. The XCMG 600-kWh standard-load battery-swap tractor unit writes value into every transport journey. Under the wave of green transformation, XCMG Automobile joins hands with countless logistics practitioners to travel together across mountains and seas and jointly draw a new blueprint for high-quality development of the logistics industry.