Clayton Franklin

With over 25 years of engineering experience across the mining and renewable energy sectors, Clayton founded EPCA in 2023 with a vision to decarbonise mining by electrifying existing diesel equipment. His early career saw him work across mining and renewable energy sectors, including his role with Bushlight, where he delivered over 140 solar and hybrid energy systems to remote Indigenous communities in northern Australia.

Over the years, Clayton’s hands-on experience evolved into a vision: to help heavy industry decarbonise without compromising on performance or cost. Clayton’s skills took him to FFI, where he led the design of a hydrogen-electric mining truck, and he started to see the opportunity for an electric truck.

Driven by his Indigenous heritage rooted in caring for the land, he started EPCA and, with his team, completed Australia’s first retrofit of a 100-tonne diesel mining truck to battery-electric in Perth last year.

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