NIKOLA CORPORATION
THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE TO
INDENTURE DATED AUGUST 21, 2023
Series B-1 Senior Convertible Note Due 2025
THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of August 19, 2024 (this THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE), between NIKOLA
CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the Company), and WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, as Trustee (the Trustee).
RECITALS
A. The Company filed a
registration statement on Form S-3 on April 1, 2022 (File Number 333-264068) (the Registration Statement) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC)
pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act) and the Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC on April 14, 2022.
B. The Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture, dated as of August 21, 2023, substantially in the form
filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 21, 2023, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 22, 2023, and this Third Supplemental Indenture
(as supplemented, the Indenture), providing for the issuance from time to time of Securities (as defined in the Indenture) by the Company.
C. The Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the Trust Indenture Act).
D. Sections 201 and 301 of the Indenture provides for various matters with respect to any series of Securities (as defined in the Indenture)
issued under the Indenture to be established in an indenture supplemental to the Indenture.
E. Section 901 of the Indenture provides
that, without the consent of the Holders, for the Company and the Trustee may enter into an indenture supplemental to the Indenture to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as provided by Sections 201 and 301 of the Indenture.
F. In accordance with that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated August 19, 2024 (the Securities Purchase
Agreement), by and among the Company and the investors party thereto (the Investors), at the Initial Closing (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement), the Company has agreed to sell to the Investors, and the
Investors have agreed to purchase from the Company, $80,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes (as defined below), subject to the satisfaction of certain terms and conditions set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement, in each case,
pursuant to (i) the Indenture, (ii) this Third Supplemental Indenture, (iii) the Securities Purchase Agreement and (iv) the Registration Statement.