Westwell · port and yard vehicle
Westwell Qomolo Q-Truck
A cabless battery-electric autonomous container truck with six-minute battery swaps, built by Westwell's Qomolo brand. It carries up to 80 tonnes and runs about 200 km per charge.
- Price
- —Not sold as a priced product; supplied under project contracts
- Autonomy
- DriverlessHow it runs
- Driverless
- In serviceSince 2021-07
- Fleet
- 18Reported; details below
- Speed
- —Not published
- Payload
- 80000 kgToo few to rank
Why it matters
CSP Abu Dhabi said it became the first Middle East terminal with autonomous port trucks in July 2021.
Real-world use
Six Q-Trucks started at CSP Abu Dhabi in 2021 and 12 more were added in 2025; Westwell says a Q-Truck fleet runs unmanned around the clock at the Port of Felixstowe (June 2025).
Timeline
- Released
- 2022-01
Maker
WestwellCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Driverless in service
- Where it runs
- CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal, Khalifa Port (UAE); Port of Felixstowe (UK); Zhuhai and Tianjin (China); Laem Chabang (Thailand)
- Driverless since
- 2021-07
- Fleet
- 18 at CSP Abu Dhabi (6 in 2021 plus 12 in 2025, Westwell); Felixstowe count not published; Westwell said nearly 100 driverless vehicles of all types worldwide in Jan 2022
How it stacks up
Against other ports & shipyards that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Too few ports & shipyards publish a payload to rank it. Bars show the 1 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Westwell Qomolo Q-Truck gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
- 3 reported deployments
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.
From the maker
Westwell Qomolo Q-Truck is the only vehicle from Westwell (Shanghai Westwell-Lab Technology) in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedNot sold as a priced product; supplied under project contracts
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Where it works
3 reported deployments.
- Deployed
CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal · CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal, Khalifa Port · Abu Dhabi · since 2021-07 · 6 units
CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal commissioned six electric Qomolo Q-Trucks, the Middle East's first autonomous port truck system. 6 electric Q-Trucks after a two-month trial (Abu Dhabi Media Office, July 2021) Abu Dhabi Media Office
- Deployed
Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe · Port of Felixstowe · Felixstowe
Westwell's autonomous Q-Trucks move containers at the Port of Felixstowe, and a second batch of 34 doubled the fleet in 2025. second batch of 34 Q-Trucks roughly doubled the fleet (Nov 2025); 100 on order Automated Warehouse
- Deployed
Hutchison Ports Thailand · Laem Chabang Terminal D · Laem Chabang · since 2020 · 15 units
Fifteen Westwell Q-Trucks run in mixed traffic at Hutchison Ports Thailand's Terminal D in Laem Chabang. 15 Q-Trucks in mixed traffic, over 334,000 TEU moves (AJOT, June 2023) American Journal of Transportation
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Westwell Qomolo Q-TruckWestwell (Shanghai Westwell-Lab Technology) | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useTianjin Port Section C L4 electric container trucksTianjin Port Group with HuaweiSame job: container moving · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  PSA Tuas Port AGV fleetPSA International (multiple suppliers)Same job: container moving · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Fernride autonomous terminal tractor (Terberg base)FernrideSame job: container moving · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
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| First shown | 2021-07 | 2021-10 | 2022 | 2023-01 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
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| Payload | 80000 kg | — | — | — |
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Sources
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