Battery – Electric Surface Mining Vehicles Built for
Today and Tomorrow
Driving the Next Generation of Surface Mining
MacLean has officially launched its Surface Mining Vehicle Division, built on a simple but powerful belief:
we offer safe, innovative, and fit-for-purpose solutions. For more than 50 years, MacLean has engineered heavy equipment solutions that help mining operations run safer, smarter, and more efficiently. Now, we’re bringing that legacy – and over a decade of battery electric vehicle experience – to the surface mining industry.
MacLean’s Surface Mining Vehicle portfolio offers battery – electric solutions, engineered to support mining companies on their journey toward decarbonization. Our first product in the Surface Mining Equipment Portfolio is the GR8 EV Grader – which is an 18 ft all-electric pit-class grader.
Why we launched the Surface Mining Vehicle Division?
Every mining company with a decarbonization roadmap faces the same challenge:
How do we replace today’s fossil-fuel-based surface mining processes with zero emission, equipment that meet both performance and total cost of ownership requirements?
This is where MacLean steps in.
Our team is in the field – listening to customers, understanding their operational pressures, and identifying the gaps holding back a cleaner and more productive mine site. That real-world insight fuels our designs, ensuring that every MacLean product directly addresses a specific industry need.
What We Bring to the Surface Mining Industry
50+ years of heavy equipment engineering, manufacturing, service, and support
Global support networks
Proven reliability in harsh mining environments
10+ years delivering battery electric mining vehicles worldwide
Trusted Expertise
What we deliver?
Technology Leadership
To support a mine’s journey to full electrification, MacLean provides flexible, future-ready equipment pathways. Our engineering focus is on delivering the right technology to meet the operational, environmental, and productivity needs of each customer.
Product Development Through Partnerships
MacLean’s engineering philosophy is rooted in partnership. We co-develop solutions with our customers, ensuring the equipment they receive is fit-for-purpose to meet what their operations demand.
Surface Mining Vehicle Solutions
MacLean remains committed to supporting our customers by taking on custom projects that extend beyond our current product lines. With a strong in-house engineering team, we are able to design and develop solutions—either independently or in collaboration with mining companies—to address complex and unique operational challenges. We are always open to exploring custom project opportunities, especially when they complement our existing offerings or align with expertise gained through previous specialized projects.
Over the coming months, we will continue expanding our portfolio to better serve the evolving needs of modern mine sites.
Hear it from our Partner
Working alongside the MacLean team throughout the development of the Battery Electric GR8 Grader project has been an example of a perfect project partnership. Their professionalism and level of detail from researching operational and maintenance requirements on site and this following into the design choices and ability to effectively implement feedback is a testament to the hard work from all parts of their team. MacLean have not accepted the current industry design of graders as best practice and have actively engaged with on site personal to target problem areas in current grader designs and improve these in the GR8.
From a project management point of view, the team have been easy to work with and have set up systems to track and ensure deliverables are on time and to a high level of quality. Even with the time zones challenges between Canada and Australia there is never a delay in responses and progress of the project. MacLean have been receptive to aggressive timeline requests and have demonstrated an ability to pivot and review all aspects of the project when requested.
We look forward to a continued partnership with MacLean and watching the GR8 go from a concept into the design and validation phase to see the results of the hard work put in by the team.
Jameson Wedge, Project Manager- Green Mobility HME, Fortescue
Experience the Future of Surface Mining Vehicles
Speak with our team to discover how can support your decarbonization goals.
