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Electric Goddess highlights space‑battery R&D, hands‑on LIBS demo in El Segundo City
Summary
Electric Goddess, a local battery startup, described its growth from a laptop to a specialized lab in El Segundo City, demonstrating a handheld laser‑induced breakdown spectrometer and outlining space‑grade testing capabilities including radiation and low‑pressure simulation.
Electric Goddess, a privately held battery company based in El Segundo City, described its development from a one‑laptop operation into a laboratory that performs space‑grade battery testing and demos, including a handheld laser‑induced breakdown spectrometer (LIBS).
The company’s founder, identified in the transcript as the Electric Goddess founder, said the business began with “just a laptop and a power supply and a phone,” and that an early corporate client and a joint venture with “the world’s largest automotive parts company” helped the company grow. “When we started Electric Goddess, I had no idea what it would transform to today,” the Electric Goddess founder said.
The founder described the company’s work on batteries for space applications and its access to local aerospace expertise. “I love doing, space battery designs because, there’s a lot of specialty challenges that make it unique,” the founder said, adding that El Segundo has “a lot of aerospace and space talent” and that the lab has expanded to include space simulation chambers to “replicate lower pressure environments than where the ISS is orbiting.”
On camera in the lab, the founder demonstrated a LIBS spectrometer and explained how it analyzes elemental composition. “It essentially emits a laser … and every single element on the periodic table gives a different light signature,” the founder said, then used the device on a sample jelly roll from an experiment and reported detection of “lithium, aluminum, iron, and sodium.”
The founder said the company also uses a local particle accelerator for radiation testing of battery systems and described prior experience working at SpaceX and at a battery factory as background for the company’s technical work. The founder said the company’s time is “99% … batteries and battery related activities,” but that the workspace includes nontechnical items such as a trampoline and an embroidery machine.
A host on the recording guided viewers into the lab and introduced the demonstration, noting they were “in the lab here with Erica,” who appears in the tape as lab personnel present during the demo. The transcript does not list funding sources, contract numbers, or customers beyond the general reference to a corporate client and a joint venture; those details were not specified in the meeting transcript.
No formal actions, votes, or regulatory items were recorded in the transcript segment provided.
