Pierre Bonneau

[MagellanQuest 🇪🇺/acc @MagellanQuest]

Something just changed in European trucking.
Electric trucks are now cheaper to own than diesel in 6 major EU markets representing 46% of EU heavy-truck sales.
5-year savings: 🇳🇱 €100k
🇩🇪 €85k
🇩🇰 €69k
The diesel shock just moved the tipping point.

[euromoney.com @euromoney]

Could cashflow, rather than collateral, unlock finance for more African SMEs?
Our latest article explores how African banks are using cashflow-based approaches to widen access to credit while supporting sound lending decisions.
Read now:

[Antoine Copra @Cobra_FX_]

C'est le début de la fin du développement par le charbon.

Comme ils l'ont fait avec le smartphone et la 5G, déployés avant d'avoir des lignes de téléphone fixe, les pays en développement passent directement au solaire, aux batteries et aux véhicules électriques.

Le monde va plus vite que prévu.

[Ember @ember_energy]

Solar + storage = energy dream team ☀️🔋

This August, India supplied 11% of the growth in post-sunset electricity demand with clean energy, using a combination of pumped hydro storage and battery storage.

More from Neshwin Rodrigues in ET Energy World:
https://t.co/vxqQm7Apg2

[Peter Gardner @PeterDGardner]

Faster electrification can slash energy import bills by $US400 billion, cut global oil use by 18 million barrels a day https://t.co/UQHLjYeHkx

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

Solar just overtook wind for the first time in history. Wind took decades to get there. Solar took ten years to 10x its way past it.

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

China's auto market will be fully EV before 2030 and 100% BEV before 2035 if current sales trends continue!

BEVs recorded their highest share of EV sales since 2023, with BEVs at 69% and PHEVs 31%.

EVs were 58% of Chinese exports, up from 40% in 8/2025.
https://t.co/V8vCxIlXuB

[Ember @ember_energy]

Solar reached a record 10% of global electricity in H1 2026. With batteries, "solar can grow even faster, adding more clean power in both midday and the evening," says Ember's Kostantsa Rangelova

This means, batteries can turn solar into anytime electricity 🔋☀️

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Every AI chip sold makes EVs cheaper. Every EV sold makes AI servers cheaper: Two revolutions inexorably feeding each other
>Chips, batteries, power electronics, motors and sensors are the 5 components inside every AI server AND every EV
>Since 1990, their combined cost has fallen 97.5–99.9%, and each revolution's demand makes the other's components cheaper: Chips: -99.9%. Sensors: -99.8%. Power electronics: -99.5%. Batteries: -99.2%. Motors: -97.5%

Build more computers, get cheaper cars. Build more cars, get cheaper AI

Wires chewing pipelines

https://t.co/MMJmpSp4Fo

[Ember @ember_energy]

Transport electrification in China is steadily displacing gasoline demand ⚡🚗

In 2020, an estimated 0.10 million barrels a day was avoided. By 2024, 0.43 million barrels a day – around 12% of China's gasoline use.

https://t.co/11Kz4LvLi5

[Electrek.co @ElectrekCo]

BYD unveils flagship 600 km electric truck with 1.5 MW charging https://t.co/BR1q8bWTuP by @fredlambert

[Ce jour-là dans l'Histoire @CeJourHistoire]

Les chênes qu'on abat aujourd'hui dans cette forêt ont été mis en réserve sous Louis XIV. Ceux qui les remplacent seront coupés vers 2300.

C'est la seule forêt de France métropolitaine exploitée sur un cycle de plus de deux cents ans.

Elle s'appelle Tronçais, elle est dans l'Allier, et elle couvre 10 600 hectares.

Tout part d'une décision de 1670. Colbert fait délimiter et réaménager la forêt, et il la réserve à la marine du roi.

Le calcul est simple et démesuré. Un chêne bon pour un vaisseau met deux siècles et demi à se faire. Les arbres qu'on met de côté ce jour-là seront coupés par des hommes dont les arrière-arrière-grands-parents ne sont pas encore nés.

Pour obtenir ce bois, on fait pousser les chênes serrés les uns contre les autres. Privés de lumière sur les côtés, ils montent droit et perdent leurs branches basses tout seuls. Le tronc grandit sans nœuds.

Le plus haut de la forêt mesure 47,50 mètres.

La marine, elle, n'en a presque rien tiré.

Le temps que les arbres soient mûrs, les coques se construisaient en fer. Et les charpentiers de marine avaient surtout besoin de pièces courbes, pour épouser la forme des bateaux. Tronçais ne produisait que des troncs droits.

Ce qui était un défaut pour la marine est devenu une valeur ailleurs. Un bois droit, sans nœud, à grain serré, se fend en lattes régulières. Et des lattes régulières, cela fait des douves de tonneaux.

Les grands vins de Bordeaux et le cognac vieillissent dans du chêne de Tronçais.

Le bois des fûts qu'on remplit cette année vient d'arbres qui poussaient déjà avant la Révolution.

[World Bank Group @WorldBankGroup]

AI + satellites = smarter trade.

@WorldBankGroup research shows how geospatial data can pinpoint congestion, improve freight flows, and strengthen trade corridors across Africa.

Read more: https://t.co/mXqn0p2XLc

[World Bank Energy @WBG_Energy]

Africa can expand energy access, create jobs & build resilience at the same time. To make informed decisions, policymakers need better data. Our new report with the #OECD, @gggi_hq, & @SWAC_OECD helps fill information gaps across 28 African countries. https://t.co/ivZDyHPj7I

[The Olympic Games™ @Olympics]

The Flame is here! 🔥

Follow the Flame Arrival Ceremony live ➡️ https://t.co/4hUpxqoN2W

#Olympics #Dakar2026

[Ember @ember_energy]

Electricity now supplies about THREE-QUARTERS of final energy in China's light manufacturing sector⚡

Electricity share (%)
🔌 Electrical equipment and electronics: 78%
🏭 Machinery: 72%
👕 Textiles: 71%
🛻 Transport equipment: 71%

https://t.co/11Kz4LvLi5

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Electric heavy trucking took another bloody big step. ⚡🚛

Windrose trucks arriving in Australia:
600+ km fully loaded. Today.

Next up, the Mega E960:
⚡ 960 km fully loaded
🔋 940 kWh #LMFP battery
📅 First deliveries: 2028

From 600+ km to nearly 1,000 km fully loaded in roughly two years.

Remember when batteries supposedly couldn't do long-haul trucking?

That argument is ageing very quickly.

The next bottleneck isn't range. It's getting megawatt charging, grid connections and depot infrastructure built fast enough.

And once electric wins on cost per tonne-km, fleets won't need convincing.

Economics will do the job.

https://t.co/KjxWNBoJ7Y

[Jeux Olympiques™ @jeuxolympiques]

Le moment que nous attendions tous ! 🔥
La vasque a été allumée et la flamme olympique est arrivée en Afrique 🇸🇳✨

#Dakar2026 #PassTheEnergy I @jojdakar2026

[Christian Klaue @ChKlaue]

📌 Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic flame lit in Athens as historic journey to Africa begins

This marks the start of its journey to Dakar in Senegal and another major milestone on the road to the first Olympic sporting event ever held on African soil.

Lit using the sun’s rays - in keeping with Olympic tradition - the flame was formally handed over to the Organising Committee before beginning its journey towards Dakar.

Dakar 2026 Ambassador and Senegalese Olympian Oumy Diop took part in the ceremony, representing the generation of young Senegalese and African athletes who will be at the heart of the YOG.

"In just a few weeks, Senegal will welcome young athletes from around the world for the first Olympic competition ever to be held on African soil. That is a proud moment for Senegal. And it is a proud moment for Africa. And it is going to open an important new chapter for the Olympic Movement," said IOC President Kirsty Coventry.

📎 https://t.co/4AgfmNGBmQ

[Jeux Olympiques™ @jeuxolympiques]

LA FLAMME EST ALLUMÉE. 🔥

À l’aide uniquement des rayons du soleil et d’un miroir parabolique, exactement comme cela se faisait dans l’ancienne Olympie, la flamme olympique des @jojdakar2026 a vu le jour. 🇸🇳

#Dakar2026 #PassTheEnergy