November 2026 Newsletter

Etrucks® will be at Bauma Shanghai in the last week of November. Let me know if you would like to meet there to discuss the latest offerings from XCMG and others.

A walkthrough of our East Tamaki facility with some of the recent arrivals.
https://youtu.be/T2cap-a895U

Our latest Deepway has arrived, our first with factory white paint. Deepway have ticked past 25,000 heavy BEV trucks registered in China. This one will run Napier to Taupo return daily.

Our first two Farizon ultralights with bespoke refrigerated superstructures

Running at highway speeds we achieved 161km with the chiller set at -8C (running nearly full, 5200kg), with 15% SOC remaining, and it was windy.
So around 15% more efficient than the older version.
Our guess at city speeds, out full, back empty, 190 to 200km will be possible.
This one has side doors on both sides so the whole thing can be forklift loaded from ground level.

We can also offer bespoke refrigerated superstructures on the new Deepway 8x4s with Thermoking T880 refrigerators running off the truck’s battery for emissions free cold chain delivery.
Duration (truck only) of up to 650km depending on battery size.

We now have two RHD Zeron 1060hp prime movers in testing in China. We still expect the first unit to arrive in New Zealand this year. We have four sold already and the next build slots commencing in March 2027 are filling up.
https://youtu.be/c-pZr2ZPWJc

The surge towards full on highway autonomy continues.
Frost & Sullivan (TX) note Zeron is the only company globally to combine forward-engineered vehicle development capabilities with an end-to-end multimodal large language model (LLM) designed specifically for heavy-duty trucks. 
In other words, Zeron are leading the pack for robotic heavy transport.

XCMG’s cabless autonomous hauler for logistics parks.

Autonomous courier trucks are now legal all over China and they expect over 60,000 will be deployed in 2027. They must be “black box” equipped and can’t be controlled remotely anymore, they have to be 100% autonomous.

With autonomy the utilization of the asset is around 2.7x that of a single driver truck. The cargo space can also increase, as on this 8×4 with a 9.6m deck.

Leach and Co’s waste guarded XC948EV with the 180kW battery getting ready for work in Wellington.
58% of the wheel loaders sold in China so far this year were electric with XCMG remaining the No1 supplier in the world.
We can now offer 20kW V2L for those considering using the loader as the battery for their solar array.

Green Gorilla’s XCMG E400 looking smart with the rear bin loader and ready for work.

If you need to get energy to those remote machines how about a 522kWh tracked BESS. It can walk at 5kph and charge at 360kW.

Our latest 20′ towable site office, available from $48,500 + GST. 1600W of solar on the roof plus battery adds $9,800 + GST.

The latest shipment of LC9s has arrived. All these are sold, let us know if you want some from the next shipment.

One unit out working in the Canterbury sunshine.