The Boring Company

The Boring Company’s effort to create a network of tunnels to enable of electric transit network called ‘Loop’ under Los Angeles is rapidly coming closer to reality as they complete their first tunnel.

Today, Elon Musk released a video of the first completed tunnel.
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It looks like Tesla is becoming a supplier for Elon Musk’s Boring Company as the automaker confirms that they have an agreement with the startup to supply “certain vehicle motor and battery pack components.”
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It looks like Elon Musk’s Boring Company is going to do more than sell hats and flamethrowers in order to finance its hyperloop and tunnel projects.

The company confirmed today that they are raising $112.5 million from a group of investors.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is facing a lot of red tape for its plan to build a network of tunnels under Los Angeles, but the Board of Building and Safety Commissioners has now signed off on the proof of concept while they seek an exemption from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to accelerate the project.

In the meantime, Musk is apparently already driving around the first tunnel in a Tesla.
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After hats and flamethrowers, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has announced the latest product to finance their infrastructure projects: LEGO-like blocks made out of rocks dug out of the company’s tunnels to build houses and other structures.
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After a few months of quietly working on their hyperloop project on the East Coast, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has now unveiled the first leg of the project, which is a ‘Loop’ transit system to travel between Washington D.C. and Baltimore in 15 minutes.
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Elon Musk announced last year that his new startup, the Boring Company, would bid on Chicago’s transit project between the airport and downtown with a ‘high-speed loop.’

Now it has been announced that the submission is among the last two contenders for the project, which could soon become the startup’s third infrastructure project.
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Elon Musk announced a shift for his latest startup, the Boring Company. They will focus on hyperloop and tunnels built for pedestrians and cyclists instead of cars.
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While Elon Musk’s Boring Company received a mixed reaction to its Los Angeles tunnel plans at Culver City Council last month, it seems to be making some progress on its other tunnel project on the east coast.

The company has reportedly received its first excavation permit in Washington D.C.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is working to bring its vision of tunnels with electric skates to reality in Los Angeles and it presented its latest expansion project to the Culver City Council for approval yesterday.

The local government needs to give the green light for them to start digging, but the council members appeared to have mixed feelings about the project.
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After completing an impressive – and at times bizarre – sale of 50,000 hats, Elon Musk’s Boring Company is now sending out invites to 10 random hat buyers to drive their boring machine and tour their first Los Angeles tunnel.

Guess who won one of the invites?
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In October, we reported on Elon Musk’s Boring Company deploying a staging area for its Baltimore-DC underground hyperloop project.

Now more details about the project are coming out as the company reportedly plans to start digging as soon as next month. 
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company, a startup aiming to create networks of tunnels with electric skate transit systems, recently sought to expand its tunnels under Los Angeles.

They have now released a map of the planned network – giving us a better idea of the scale of the project.
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After the Los Angeles tunnel network and the Baltimore-DC underground Hyperloop, Elon Musk’s Boring Company is going to attempt a third infrastructure project: a ‘high-speed loop’ to link Chicago’s airport to downtown.
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Elon Musk’s small tunnel boring startup, the Boring Company, appears to still be moving at breakneck pace.

The company is now seeking to expand its tunnels under Los Angeles as Mayor Garcetti seems open to the idea.
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Elon Musk released this weekend the first image of the Boring Company’s new tunnel under Los Angeles and also expanded on the company’s plans for future segments of the project.
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Earlier this morning, we reported about Elon Musk announcing that his Boring Company is getting a second multi-million dollar boring machine.

Now we might have an idea where that new machine is going after what appears to be a new digging site spotted in Maryland today.
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I don’t think Elon Musk can still call his Boring Company a “small project” if it’s not going to have only one but now two multi-million dollar boring machines to play with.
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As we reported last week, Elon Musk’s Boring Company received a green light from the city of Hawthorne to build a 2-mile long tunnel.

Now the CEO teases Tesla’s all-electric Model S in the tunnel – giving us a glimpse of what his vision of a network of tunnels alleviating traffic in cities could look like.
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Earlier this month, Elon Musk’s Boring Company presented the second phase of its tunnel at a special meeting of the Hawthorne city council.

We now learn that they have approved the plan and the startup can start extending its tunnel.
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