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Based upon that evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this Report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
−Removed: Solid Power, Inc.
−Removed: | 2024 Form 10-K | 67
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
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Other Information
+Added: During the quarter ended December 31, 2025, the following directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Exchange Act) adopted or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” each as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K:
+Added: Trading Arrangement
+Added: Aggregate Number
+Added: of Securities to be
+Added: Name and Title
+Added: Purchased or Sold
+Added: Up to 118,808 shares of common stock to be sold
+Added: Up to 39,206 shares of common stock to be sold
+Added: (1) Intended to satisfy the affirmative defense of Rule 10b5-1.
Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
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Incorporated by Reference
−Removed: Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated as of June 15, 2021, by and among the Company, DCRC Merger Sub, Inc.
−Removed: and Solid Power Operating, Inc.
−Removed: November 10, 2021
−Removed: First Amendment to the Business Combination Agreement, dated October 12, 2021, by and among the Company, DCRC Merger Sub, Inc.
−Removed: and Solid Power Operating, Inc.
−Removed: November 10, 2021
Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
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December 13, 2021
+Added: Form of Pre-Funded Warrant
+Added: January 29, 2026
+Added: Form of Common Warrant
+Added: January 29, 2026
Warrant Agreement, dated March 23, 2021, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company
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Description of Securities
−Removed: March 23, 2022
−Removed: Solid Power, Inc.
−Removed: | 2024 Form 10-K | 70
Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement, dated March 23, 2021, between Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation III, Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Sponsor III LLC and the other purchasers named therein
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Solid Power, Inc.
+Added: | 2025 Form 10-K | 77
+Added: Solid Power, Inc.
2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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2021 Equity Incentive Plan
−Removed: February 14, 2022
Form of Notice of Restricted Stock Unit Grant (New Director) under Solid Power, Inc.
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June 24, 2024
−Removed: Solid Power, Inc.
−Removed: | 2024 Form 10-K | 71
Amendment No.
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October 13, 2021
+Added: Solid Power, Inc.
+Added: | 2025 Form 10-K | 78
Series B Preferred Stock Financing Letter Agreement between the Ford Motor Company and Solid Power Operating, Inc., dated May 5, 2021
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December 17, 2024
−Removed: Joint Development Agreement, dated October 28, 2021, between Solid Power Operating, Inc.
−Removed: and SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
−Removed: November 2, 2021
+Added: Fourth Amendment to Joint Development Agreement, dated December 31, 2025, between Solid Power Operating, Inc.
+Added: and Ford Motor Company
Research and Development Technology License Agreement, dated January 10, 2024, between Solid Power Operating, Inc.
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January 24, 2024
+Added: Amendment to Assistance Agreement Award No.
+Added: DE-MS0000122, dated May 15, 2025, between Solid Power Operating, Inc.
+Added: Department of Energy
+Added: Joint Evaluation Agreement, dated October 27, 2025, among BMW AG, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., and Solid Power Operating, Inc.
+Added: October 30, 2025
Solid Power, Inc.
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Solid Power, Inc.
+Added: Directors’ Deferred Equity Compensation Plan
+Added: Solid Power, Inc.
Executive Incentive Compensation Plan
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Solid Power, Inc.
−Removed: Executive Change in Control and Severance Plan
−Removed: December 13, 2021
+Added: Severance Benefit Plan
+Added: November 21, 2025
Solid Power, Inc.
+Added: Change in Control Severance Plan for Executives
+Added: November 21, 2025
+Added: Solid Power, Inc.
+Added: | 2025 Form 10-K | 79
+Added: Solid Power, Inc.
Form of Indemnification Agreement
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Offer Letter with John Van Scoter, dated May 26, 2023
−Removed: Solid Power, Inc.
−Removed: | 2024 Form 10-K | 72
Letter Agreement with Joshua Buettner-Garrett, dated August 5, 2021
March 1, 2023
−Removed: Offer Letter with James Liebscher, dated June 9, 2021
−Removed: March 1, 2023
Offer Letter with Linda Heller, dated June 14, 2024
June 17, 2024
−Removed: Offer Letter with Kevin Paprzycki, dated September 30, 2021
−Removed: March 1, 2023
−Removed: Separation and Release Agreement with Kevin Paprzycki, dated July 11, 2024
−Removed: August 7, 2024
−Removed: Letter Agreement with Derek Johnson, dated August 5, 2021
−Removed: December 13, 2021
−Removed: Consulting Agreement, dated January 13, 2025, between Solid Power Operating, Inc.
−Removed: and Derek Johnson
−Removed: January 13, 2025
−Removed: Form of Retention Agreement, dated November 29, 2022
−Removed: November 29, 2022
Lease Agreement between the Company and Red Pierce, LLC, dated November 29, 2016
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December 13, 2021
+Added: Equity Distribution Agreement, dated September 5, 2025, by and between Solid Power, Inc.
+Added: and Oppenheimer & Co.
+Added: September 5, 2025
Solid Power, Inc.
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February 28, 2024
+Added: Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
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Solid Power, Inc.
−Removed: | 2024 Form 10-K | 73
−Removed: Solid Power, Inc.
Policy on Recovery of Incentive Compensation
+Added: February 28, 2025
+Added: Solid Power, Inc.
+Added: | 2025 Form 10-K | 80
XBRL Instance Document – the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data file because its Inline XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document
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/s/ Linda Heller
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
+Added: Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary
Solid Power, Inc.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
−Removed: KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints John Van Scoter, Linda Heller, and James Liebscher, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact, proxy and agent 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 for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, proxy and agent, or his or her substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
+Added: KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints John Van Scoter, Linda Heller, and Kristen Gould, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact, proxy and agent 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 for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, proxy and agent, or his or her substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this Annual Report on Form 10-K has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
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John Van Scoter
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
+Added: Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary
/s/ Linda Heller
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Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.