Electric Goddess Recognized with the Battery Technology Consulting & R&D Excellence Award at the Great Companies Global Business Awards 2026
As battery technology moves into increasingly demanding applications—from satellites and aircraft to data centers, robotics, and grid storage—the challenges facing engineers are becoming more complex. Published specifications and laboratory data can provide important foundations, but real-world battery development often requires deeper investigation: understanding failure modes, validating materials, evaluating safety, and generating application-specific data.
That is the space in which Electric Goddess operates.
Founded in 2019 by Erika Guerrero in El Segundo, California, Electric Goddess is a specialized battery consulting and R&D company that works alongside organizations designing and building battery systems. Its approach combines experienced battery engineering with an in-house laboratory, allowing the company to investigate questions that conventional datasheets and published papers may not fully answer.
From battery design and material selection to testing, failure analysis, and system integration, Electric Goddess brings more than two decades of battery experience to projects spanning land, sea, air, and space.
For this specialized contribution to battery technology development, the company has been recognized with the Battery Technology Consulting & R&D Excellence Award at the Great Companies Global Business Awards 2026.
Key Highlights
Founded in 2019 by Erika Guerrero and based in El Segundo, California.
Provides specialized battery consulting, research and development, design, testing, and forensics.
Supports battery programs across land, sea, air, and space applications.
Maintains an in-house laboratory equipped for advanced battery and materials testing.
Reports 50+ battery designs, 200+ completed projects, and 40+ global clients.
Battery designs guided by the company are reported to be deployed on more than 350 satellites in low Earth orbit.
Operates as a bootstrapped company that has grown substantially through client referrals.
Where Consulting Meets the Laboratory
Electric Goddess was built around a straightforward observation: some of the most important battery-development questions cannot be answered simply by reading a datasheet.
The company integrates directly with teams developing battery technologies, combining consulting expertise with laboratory investigation to generate the data needed to inform engineering decisions.
Its work spans four principal areas: research and development, consulting, design and testing, and forensics.
This means a client may engage Electric Goddess to investigate a material, understand a battery failure, evaluate cell safety, develop a battery system, support manufacturing, or generate specialized test data.
The model is intentionally different from a conventional testing house. Rather than simply receiving a battery, performing a predefined test, and returning a report, Electric Goddess positions its laboratory as part of a broader engineering process—where test results are interpreted and integrated into decisions about battery design and performance.
A Specialized Approach to Battery R&D
Battery development requires decisions across multiple layers of technology.
Electric Goddess supports areas including material selection, cell development, battery architecture, safety and abuse testing, thermal analysis, corrosion testing, powertrain development, failure mitigation, and manufacturing support.
Its laboratory includes specialized equipment for applications such as advanced cell cycling, thermal conductivity analysis, thermal runaway investigation, accelerated rate calorimetry, microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, residual gas analysis, LIBS material analysis, and corrosion testing.
The objective is not testing for its own sake.
The company describes its role as capturing, interpreting, and integrating test results to help clients make better battery-system decisions.
That connection between laboratory evidence and engineering application is central to its R&D proposition.
From Material Science to System-Level Decisions
One of Electric Goddess's differentiators is the breadth of its perspective.
Battery problems rarely exist in isolation. Material choices can influence safety. Cell characteristics can affect pack architecture. Thermal behavior can influence system design. Manufacturing decisions can affect reliability and serviceability.
The company's work therefore extends from individual materials and cells through battery packs and broader energy and power systems.
Its services include feasibility studies, design support, new product development, design updates, failure mitigation, lab setup, manufacturing support, supplier introductions, quality control, and technical guidance.
This allows Electric Goddess to participate at different stages of a battery program rather than limiting its contribution to a single testing phase.
Solving Problems That Require More Than Standard Data
The company's competitive advantage is particularly visible in its approach to difficult technical questions.
Electric Goddess describes its role as helping clients answer questions that datasheets and published papers can't answer. Its combination of experienced consultants and laboratory infrastructure enables customized investigation when standard information is insufficient.
The company has also highlighted client projects involving advanced battery chemistry, aerospace applications, silicon anode technology, and battery safety.
One recent case study describes work with an aerospace client and its cell manufacturer involving custom testing and technical knowledge applied to an advanced cell chemistry. Another examined the silicon anode landscape to provide investor intelligence around adoption in commercial devices.
These examples illustrate the breadth of the company's work—from highly technical engineering challenges to strategic technology assessment.
Experience Built Through Real-World Battery Programs
Electric Goddess says its team brings more than 20 years of experience shipping batteries, covering the path from material selection through system integration.
That practical experience is important to the company's positioning.
Battery development is not purely a research exercise. Technologies ultimately need to operate reliably in real environments, where thermal conditions, mechanical stresses, corrosion, manufacturing variability, serviceability, and safety can all become critical.
The company's emphasis on real-world application helps connect laboratory investigation with the requirements of products intended for deployment.
Among the milestones highlighted by Electric Goddess is its involvement in battery designs now used on more than 350 satellites in low Earth orbit.
For a company operating in a highly specialized field, that provides a notable example of how battery engineering decisions can ultimately support demanding aerospace applications.
Building Through Trust and Technical Results
Electric Goddess has also taken a distinctive path as a business.
The company reports that it is bootstrapped and referral-driven, growing without outside funding by solving difficult client problems and earning repeat recommendations.
Several client companies have subsequently gone public, while the company's client list includes some of the world's largest companies, according to company-provided information.
The company's reported milestones include more than 200 completed projects, 40+ global clients, and more than 50 battery designs.
Rather than emphasizing rapid expansion as its primary measure of success, Electric Goddess describes its growth as the result of solving problems effectively—one project at a time.
Why Electric Goddess Earned the Award
The Battery Technology Consulting & R&D Excellence Award recognizes the combination of technical consulting and applied research that defines Electric Goddess.
The company does more than provide battery advice or perform standardized testing. Its model brings together battery engineering expertise, custom laboratory testing, materials analysis, design support, and failure investigation to help clients make decisions about complex battery systems.
That combination is particularly relevant as batteries move into applications where safety, reliability, energy density, longevity, and system performance are increasingly consequential.
Electric Goddess has built its specialization around this intersection of engineering knowledge and experimental evidence.
What Sets Electric Goddess Apart
Its clearest differentiator is the integration of consulting and laboratory R&D.
A testing laboratory can generate data. A consultant can provide recommendations. Electric Goddess combines the two.
The company works to understand the engineering question first, then uses testing and analysis to generate information that can inform the next decision.
This approach allows its work to extend from identifying a technical problem to investigating its underlying causes and helping guide potential solutions.
It is a model built for battery programs where the answer cannot simply be found in an existing specification.
Responsible Battery Innovation
Electric Goddess also connects its technical work with a broader philosophy around responsible technology.
The company states that its mission is centered on the survival of life on Earth and that it focuses on global prosperity, clean energy, and safe products. It also states that it does not work on military or arms applications.
Its emphasis on battery longevity, material science, sustainability, and safer products reflects an approach that considers not only performance, but also the broader value chain surrounding battery technology.
Looking Ahead
The demand for better energy-storage technology is expanding across transportation, renewable energy, aerospace, data infrastructure, robotics, and other advanced applications.
Electric Goddess is positioned to continue working at the technical edge of that development by combining specialized battery expertise with laboratory-based investigation.
Its stated vision is a future in which technology and humanity can exist in greater harmony, supported by mindful design and responsible engineering.
As battery systems become more sophisticated, the ability to generate reliable, application-specific evidence—and translate that evidence into practical engineering decisions—will remain an important part of moving new technologies from concept toward real-world deployment.
Award Recognition
Battery Technology Consulting & R&D Excellence AwardGreat Companies Global Business Awards 2026
The award recognizes Electric Goddess for its specialized contribution to battery technology consulting, research and development, laboratory validation, testing, and engineering problem-solving across demanding applications.
Company Snapshot
Company: Electric Goddess
Founder: Erika Guerrero
Established: 2019
Location: El Segundo, California, USA
Industry: Consulting Services / Battery Technology
Website: electricgoddess.co
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