Company: AMTX
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001437749-25-007779
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Company: AEMETIS, INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 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

Aemetis, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 700,

Cupertino, California 95014

(408) 213-0940

(Address and telephone number of Principal Executive Office)</div>

| Delaware                 | 26-1407544                          |
| (State of Incorporation) | -I.R.S. Employer Identification No. |

<div align='center'>Aemetis, Inc. Amended and Restated 2019 Stock Plan

(Full title of the plan)

J. Michael Rockett

Executive Vice President, General Counsel,

and Corporate Secretary

Aemetis, Inc.

20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 700

Cupertino, CA 95014

(408) 213-0940

(Name, address, and telephone number of agent for service)</div>

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.:

| Large accelerated filer  ☐ | Accelerated filer  ☒         |
| Non-accelerated filer  ☐   | Smaller reporting company  ☒ |
|                            | Emerging growth company ☐    |

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. ☐

<div align='center'>EXPLANATORY NOTE</div>

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by Aemetis, Inc. (the “Registrant”) for the purpose of registering an additional 2,147,777 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”) authorized to be issued under the