When the Pakistan government issued manufacturing licenses for electric vehicles to 31 companies in October 2023, Zyp Technologies was part of the coveted list. The company, which has been running an EV two-wheeler factory in Lahore since September 2022, made a batch of 10 bikes and a battery-swapping station for a customer in 2023. While getting a formal license would enable it to manufacture and sell at a commercial scale, there’s a new challenge facing Zyp: a talent crunch. Over the past year...