Electric mobility
Tracking the commercial models, infrastructure and public policy shaping Africa’s transition to electric transport.
STONECOMMS
Research &
Intelligence
Intelligence
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.
Our field of view
Africa
Energy
Industry
Voice
Capital · infrastructure · adoption · voice
Latest research
Latest research
The hour after harvest
Africa does not only lose food because it lacks refrigerated rooms and vehicles. It loses value because farmers, fishers and traders often cannot buy reliable time: a few extra hours to aggregate, grade, negotiate and reach a better market. New 2026 evidence makes the scale of the opportunity clearer, while underused facilities show why hardware-led programmes fail. StoneComms proposes a Cold-Chain Service Test for turning cooling assets into durable market infrastructure.
Read the research →The enquiry
“What does the evidence change about the decision?”
Each flagship paper separates evidence from assertion, keeps limitations visible and develops a StoneComms original synthesis from the sources.
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Browse research →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.
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 accountable
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 is a former BBC editorial leader and communications executive. He helped build the public narrative of African electric-mobility company Spiro and later served as Chief Communications Officer for multi-billion-dollar African industrialisation and investment platform Equitane. His research at Oxford Brookes examines voice, marginalisation and editorial inclusion in UK journalism.
lee@stonecomms.com ↗