Electric mobility
Tracking the commercial models, infrastructure and public policy shaping Africa’s transition to electric transport.
Independent research for Africa’s climate economy
Evidence for Africa’s transition, and the people living it.
StoneComms is an independent research and intelligence firm examining the systems shaping Africa’s climate economy—from electrification and industrialisation to the people and institutions making the transition real.
We combine public evidence, original enquiry and lived experience to produce clear, decision-useful intelligence for investors, institutions and leaders—and work the public can interrogate.
Our field of view
Africa
Energy
Industry
Voice
Capital · infrastructure · adoption · voice
Research agenda · 2026
Three questions guide our work.
Where is change happening? Who benefits? Who has been heard in deciding what happens next?
Industrial transition
Following the capital, manufacturing choices and local value chains behind the continent’s climate economy.
Voice and legitimacy
Examining whose experience reaches decision-makers—and what gets missed when it does not.
The value of research
Better evidence changes what organisations see—and what they do next.
It reduces uncertainty before capital is committed, exposes risk before it becomes costly and tests whether strategy matches conditions on the ground.
Latest from the research repository
Open before it locks
Kenya has entered a rare policy window: electric mobility is scaling quickly, battery swapping is becoming infrastructure rather than a product feature, and the legal framework is still being written. The strategic question is not whether one battery should win. It is which interfaces must be shared before proprietary networks become expensive to unwind.
Read the publication ↗The StoneComms evidence standard
Useful intelligence should show its workings.
Source first
Claims begin with primary documents, public data and attributable evidence.
Limits visible
Uncertainty, incomplete data and competing interpretations remain part of the published record.
People count
Investment and policy are tested against the experience of those expected to live with them.
Human first
AI supports discovery and analysis. Lee Breheny remains editor and accountable author.
Commission StoneComms
When the public record is not enough, we find what is missing.
Commissioned market intelligence, stakeholder research, evidence-led thought leadership and executive briefings for organisations financing, building and governing Africa’s climate economy.
- Market and policy research
- Stakeholder and lived-experience studies
- Research-led narrative and thought leadership
- Executive and investment briefings
Editor and Research Director
Lee Breheny
From newsroom to boardroom, with the evidence kept in view.
Lee served as Chief Communications Officer for Equitane, a multi-billion-dollar African industrialisation and investment platform, after helping build the public narrative of African electric-mobility company Spiro. A former BBC editorial leader and communications executive, his research at Oxford Brookes examines voice, marginalisation and editorial inclusion in UK journalism.
lee@stonecomms.com ↗