8-K

UNITED

STATES

SECURITIES

AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington,

D.C. 20549

FORM

8-K

CURRENT

REPORT

Pursuant

to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 29, 2025

PhoenixMotor Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (909) 987-0815

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

*Trading of the registrant’s common stock on Nasdaq was suspended on April 15, 2025. The registrant’s common stock is currently quoted on the OTC Pink Limited Market under the symbol “PEVM”.

Item3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

On July 29, 2025, Phoenix Motor Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), filed an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation (the “Amendment”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to effect a 1-for-5 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0004 per share (the “Common Stock”). As previously disclosed, at its annual meeting of stockholders held on April 18, 2025, the stockholders of the Company approved a proposal to authorize the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), at its discretion, to approve a reverse stock split of the Common Stock with a ratio in the range between and including 1-for-1.5 and 1-for-5 shares, with such ratio to be determined by the Board, for the primary purpose of maintaining the Company’s listing on Nasdaq. On April 23, 2025, the Board approved the Reverse Stock Split at a ratio of 1-for-5. Following such approval, the Company filed the Amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to effect the Reverse Stock Split, with an effective time of 4:01 p.m., Eastern Time, on July 31, 2025. The Company’s Common Stock is expected to begin trading on a split-adjusted basis on the OTC Pink Limited Market under the Company’s existing trading symbol “PEVM,” at the market open on August 1, 2025. The new CUSIP number following the Reverse Stock Split will be 71910P 302.

When the Reverse Stock Split becomes effective, the total number of shares of Common Stock held by each stockholder of the Company will be converted automatically into the number of shares of Common Stock equal to (i) the number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock held by each such stockholder immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split, divided by (ii) five (5), with such resulting number of shares rounded up to the nearest whole share. As a result, no fractional shares will be issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split and no cash or other consideration will be paid in connection with any fractional shares that would otherwise have resulted from the Reverse Stock Split.

The Reverse Stock Split has no effect on the par value of the Common Stock or authorized shares of common stock or preferred stock. Currently, the Company has approximately 49,513,370 shares of Common Stock outstanding. After the Reverse Stock Split, the Company would have approximately 9,902,674 shares outstanding. Each stockholder’s percentage ownership interest in the Company and proportional voting power will remain unchanged, except for minor changes and adjustments that will result from the treatment of fractional shares. The rights and privileges of the holders of shares of Common Stock will be substantially unaffected by the Reverse Stock Split.

Stockholders who are holding their shares in electronic form at brokerage firms do not need to take any action, as the effect of the Reverse Stock Split will automatically be reflected in their brokerage accounts. Stockholders holding paper certificates may (but are not required to) send the certificates to the Company’s transfer agent and registrar, VStock Transfer, LLC, who will issue a new stock certificate reflecting the Reverse Stock Split to each requesting stockholder.

The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

The information set forth in Item 3.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.03.

Item 9.01Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Exhibit 3.1

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENTTOCERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATIONOFPHOENIX MOTOR INC.

PHOENIX MOTOR INC. (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify:

1. The name of the Corporation is: Phoenix Motor Inc.

2. The Board of Directors of the Corporation has duly adopted resolutions (i) authorizing the Corporation to execute and file with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware an amendment of the Corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation (as amended, the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to effect a reverse stock split at a ratio of 1-for-5, (ii) declaring such amendment to be advisable and in the best interest of the Corporation, and (iii) calling for the consideration and approval thereof at a meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation.

3. Upon this Certificate of Amendment becoming effective, Article FIFTH of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended by adding the following new paragraph:

“Upon effectiveness (the “Effective Time”) pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law of this Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, each five (5) shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall, automatically and without any action on the part of the respective holders thereof, be combined and converted into one (1) share of Common Stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). No fractional shares shall be issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split. Stockholders who otherwise would be entitled to receive fractional shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to be rounded up to the next whole share of Common Stock. Each certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Common Stock (“Old Certificate”), shall thereafter represent that number of shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Common Stock represented by the Old Certificate shall have been combined, subject to adjustment for fractional share interests as described above. The Reverse Stock Split shall have no effect on the number of authorized stock, or par value per share, of the Corporation.”

4. This Certificate of Amendment has been duly approved by the Board of Directors of the Corporation in accordance with Sections 141(f) and 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

5. This Certificate of Amendment has been duly approved by the holders of the requisite number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation in accordance with Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the applicable provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation.

6. This Certificate of Amendment shall become effective at 4:01 p.m., Eastern Time, on July 31, 2025.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Amendment to be executed by its duly authorized officer this 28th day of July, 2025.