more focused on its future than its history among the challenges the company faces are changing in vientiane market environmental concerns new technologies and regs it's . just a few challenges they're facing air bus when it comes to climate protection big vehicles traveling long distances like transport trucks or a bit of a dilemma that's because much harder to power something so big and environmentally friendly way but there are some novel ideas coming from scandinavia look. the main problem with electric drive trucks is that their brain just just. researches mistah crime might have an answer they've developed the world's 1st test road for braille based electric trucks alegria your ideas of the truck that's electricity from this rail in future at the electricity would come from renewable sources it's a cost effective and simple system order of. the truck can also disconnect from the rail and run on battery and a normal electric truck the battery would usually quite tums for long distances with the swedish system it's small and lightweight but while scandinavia makes these huge leaps and el

. >> anthony: and ah, michel, you -- >> michel: i was born in vientiane. >> mama vaughn: in vientianeaughn: yeah. >> anthony: have you lived here all your life? no, ah -- >> mama vaughn: in france. >> anthony: in france. >> michel: by the age of 11 i went to france to study. i came back in, in, in 1971. >> anthony: in difficult times, 1971. very, very difficult. >> michel: oh yeah, it was still the war. >> anthony: mama vaughns' long time friend michel is a journalist, though what that means in a communist one party state like laos is necessarily different than what you and i might define it as. >> michel: when i was in paris, i studied ethnology. when i came here, they said, ethnology can wait. what we need it journalists. >> mama vaughn: journalist. that's why you get your job. >> michel: that's how i became a journalist. >> anthony: american involvement here remained a particularly painful and even taboo subject with the lao government. >> anthony: obama, the united states president, just came here to visit. what do you think it means for lao? >> michel: well, i think one important