SEC Form S-8 filed by QuantumScape Corporation

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 26, 2025

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Quantumscape Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1730 Technology Drive
San Jose, California 95110

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including zip code)

2020 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)

Siva Sivaram
President and Chief Executive Officer
1730 Technology Drive
San Jose, California 95110
(408) 452-2000

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

QuantumScape Corporation (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to register additional shares of Class A Common Stock (as defined below) that have been added to the Registrant’s equity plans in accordance with the “evergreen” adjustment provisions of such plans that allow for an automatic annual increase in the number of shares subject thereto and as further described below.

The number of the Registrant’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), available for grant and issuance under the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2020 Plan”) is subject to an annual increase on the first day of each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2022, in an amount equal to the least of (i) 41,500,000 shares, (ii) five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of all classes of the Registrant’s common stock on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year or (iii) such number of shares determined by the 2020 Plan administrator.

On January 1, 2022, the number of shares of the Registrant’s Class A Common Stock available for grant and issuance under the 2020 Plan increased by 21,415,959 shares. On January 1, 2023, the number of shares of the Registrant’s Class A Common Stock available for grant and issuance under the 2020 Plan increased by 21,897,965 shares. On January 1, 2024, the number of shares of the Registrant’s Class A Common Stock available for grant and issuance under the 2020 Plan increased by 24,651,556 shares. On January 1, 2025, the number of shares of the Registrant’s Class A Common Stock available for grant and issuance under the 2020 Plan increased by 27,127,454 shares.

In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of (i) the registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on February 1, 2021 (File No. 333-252606), (ii) the registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on February 28, 2023 (File No. 333-270117), and (iii) the registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on February 27, 2024 (File No. 333- 277401), as supplemented, amended or superseded by the information set forth herein. In accordance with the instructional note to Part I of Form S-8 promulgated by the SEC, the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the SEC:

All documents filed by the Registrant with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act on or after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with the rules of the SEC (including, without limitation, information furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Current Reports on Form 8-K and the exhibits related to such items furnished under Item 9.01) shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

Any statement contained in this Registration Statement, or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 8. Exhibits.

The Registrant has filed the exhibits listed on the accompanying Exhibit Index of this Registration Statement.

EXHIBIT INDEX

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Jose, State of California, on February 26, 2025.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Siva Sivaram and Kevin Hettrich, and each one of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for them and in their name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as they might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.