Elon Musk’s Boring Company has completed the excavation of its two tunnels for Las Vegas’ electric “Loop” project.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company announced on Twitter that its third-generation boring machine, which is supposed to have had its ability greatly improved to dig tunnels fast and cheap, is now working.
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Tesla vehicles are now confirmed to be used in Elon Musk’s Boring Company Loop project to create an electric people mover at Las Vegas’ massive convention center.
You can watch them break through the first tunnel in real time.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is currently building a ‘loop’, its underground electric transport system, in Las Vegas and it could be ready by the end of the year.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is working on several electric transportation projects, and only one of them, the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, is funded.
The company is now raising $120 million from its first outside investors.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has paved its test tunnel under Los Angeles with asphalt and it is now giving test rides to some VIPs in a Tesla Model 3.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has released a video of a race between two Tesla Model 3 vehicles: one inside the company’s tunnel under Los Angeles and the other traveling the same distance but on the surface streets.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company received approval from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) Board of Directors to move forward with a ‘Loop’ system for passengers at the cost of almost $50 million.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is currently juggling many massive infrastructure projects at once. The East Coast Loop is probably the one least talked about, but it is now moving closer to a greenlight as the DOT releases its draft environmental assessment and is now open for public comments.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is announcing today a new proposed ‘Loop’ system of tunnels for approval in Las Vegas.
If everything goes according to plan, the first leg of the system would be operational at the Las Vegas Convention Center as soon as 2021.
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Elon Musk updated his vision for the Boring Company today with the unveiling of its first test tunnel in Los Angeles.
They abandoned their “electric skate” plan and replaced it with autonomous electric vehicles, starting with Tesla vehicles, using ‘tracking wheels’.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is moving forward with some urgency with its Chicago transit system between the city’s downtown area and the O-Hare airport as Rahm Emanuel, who has been pushing for the project, is leaving city hall.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has slightly delayed the launch of its first tunnel, but Musk said that it will also include the unveiling of ‘fully road legal autonomous transport cars’.
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It looks like Elon Musk’s Boring Company is on schedule for the completion of its first tunnel as the CEO releases a video of their boring machine breaking through the other end of the tunnel under Los Angeles.
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Getting rid of dirt is one of the largest costs of digging tunnels and Elon Musk’s Boring Company is exploring some creative ways to do that.
They are launching “DIY watchtowers” with bricks made of dirt from their tunnels.
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Elon Musk announced that his Boring Company is “almost done” with its first test tunnel under Los Angeles and they plan to open the project to the public around December 10.
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Elon Musk has confirmed plans for the Boring Company’s tunnel network to be able to connect all the way to residential garages so that commuters can enter the high-speed loop directly from their homes.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is currently developing more advanced tunnel digging technology for its upcoming new mass-transit projects in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Maryland.
Now the company is teasing its latest giant boring machine being operated by an Xbox controller.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is rolling back its plan for its first test tunnel in West Los Angeles announced earlier this year and instead, the startup is announcing a new tunnel and ‘Loop’ system to get to the Dodger Stadium in just about 4 minutes.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been releasing side products mostly unrelated to the company’s main purpose, like hats and flamethrowers.
The latest product has more to do with boring tunnels since they plan on selling and/or giving away bricks made from dirt dug in the company tunnels.
The Boring Company is now showing a glimpse at how the bricks are being produced.
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After winning the contract to build Chicago’s transit system between downtown and the O-Hare airport, Elon Musk’s Boring Company said that it will likely end up being the startup’s first deployment of its ‘Loop’ technology.
The company has now released the first glimpse at the system with an image of the gantry being developed for the Loop.
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Elon Musk has revealed more details about The Boring Company’s Loop after winning the bid to build the system in Chicago.
We now learn that Tesla might not only supply its electric powertrain but even build the whole ‘pods’ that will be used in the Boring Company’s tunnel.
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After having won the bid to build Chicago’s new transit system today, Elon Musk’s Boring Company is now showcasing its latest transport technology: a Tesla Model X with a contraption that enables the all-electric vehicle to drive on rails inside the startup’s tunnel.
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The city of Chicago has officially selected Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build its transit system between the O’Hare airport and downtown.
The company will build and operate a ‘Loop’, one of its new high-speed transit system ideas.
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