Articles about The Boring Company

Las Vegas takes a chance on having Elon Musk’s Boring Company build transit tunnel

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors today approved a recommendation to have the Boring Company build… Read More

Elon Musk shows off Boring Company’s test tunnel in Tesla-centric beta mode

The Boring Company’s hole in the ground in Hawthorne, Calif., got a Hollywood-style debut tonight courtesy of the company’s billionaire… Read More

Elon Musk celebrates Boring Company’s big breakthrough at end of test tunnel

The Boring Company’s “cutting-edge technology” got a shout-out from billionaire founder Elon Musk tonight after the venture’s tunneling machine, nicknamed… Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company takes a swing at building Dugout Loop to Dodger Stadium

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, the Boring Company, is getting the go-ahead sign on a project to build a… Read More

Elon Musk sends Boring Company and SpaceX experts to Thai cave rescue effort

Billionaire techie Elon Musk is sending a team of engineers from SpaceX and the Boring Company to help with the… Read More

Elon Musk: Chicago express tunnel could be started in 4 months, finished in 3 years

News Brief: Mark this down for later: Tech billionaire Elon Musk says the Boring Company could begin work on the… Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company wins the nod from Chicago for airport express link

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Boring Company is getting the go-ahead to build a multibillion-dollar express transit system between downtown Chicago… Read More

Flame on! Elon Musk says Boring Company delivers its first ‘Not-a-Flamethrower’

Billionaire tech guru Elon Musk showed off pictures of the Boring Company’s first commercial flamethrowers being distributed to lines of… Read More

L.A. tunnel rides for $1: Six takeaways from Elon Musk’s Boring Company talk

If billionaire Elon Musk’s tunnel vision comes to pass, travelers will be able to zip beneath Los Angeles through an… Read More

Elon Musk sweetens the pitch for his tunnel vision with space travel (and candy)

Billionaire Elon Musk is talking up his tunnel-boring vision at a public forum in Los Angeles tonight, and hinting that… Read More

Elon Musk says Boring Company could soon give ‘free rides’ through L.A. tunnel

The details may be fuzzy, but billionaire Elon Musk says he’s aiming to open the Boring Company’s first test tunnel… Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company raises $113M for tunnels, with Musk investing the most

A newly reported investment round has brought in $112.5 million for the Boring Company, the venture that billionaire techie Elon… Read More

Elon Musk takes the wraps off the Boring Company’s next product line: bricks

What do you do for an encore after you’ve sold 20,000 flamethrowers? If you’re billionaire Elon Musk, you sell rocks.… Read More

Elon Musk Q&A: First Mars spaceship is being built, with flight tests set for 2019

SpaceX is building its first Mars transport vehicle, also known as the BFR, and “making good progress” toward short-hop test… Read More

Elon Musk shifts focus of his grand tunnel vision from cars to walkers and cyclists

Tesla cars riding electric-powered tracks? Forget about it, at least for now. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and founder… Read More

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi takes up Elon Musk’s challenge on flying cars vs. tunnels

Pop up some more popcorn: Billionaire Elon Musk has gotten himself into another CEO vs. CEO challenge, this time with… Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company and 3 other firms vie to build Chicago airport tunnel

The Boring Company, created by billionaire Elon Musk to revolutionize the market for tunnels and flamethrowers, is one of four… Read More

Elon Musk sells 20,000 Boring Company flamethrowers, plus free fire extinguishers

Even if billionaire Elon Musk ever decides to pack it in as CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, he can point… Read More

No joke: Elon Musk’s Boring Company delivers on promise of $500 flamethrower

We thought Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, was kidding when he promised that his tunneling venture,… Read More

Elon Musk says his Boring Company will bid to build a transit ‘loop’ for Chicago

A loop to the Loop? It could happen: Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s willing to build an express transit system… Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company digs into a plan for tunnel from Baltimore to D.C.

One of billionaire Elon Musk’s lesser-known ventures is taking the spotlight with word that The Boring Company is planning to… Read More

Elon Musk shows off car elevator test for the Boring Company’s fast-track tunnel

Billionaire Elon Musk’s grand scheme for underground car tunnels will require elevators to get the cars in those tunnels – and… Read More

N.Y.-to-D.C. Hyperloop? Elon Musk claims verbal approval, but more work is needed

Out of the blue, tech billionaire Elon Musk reported today that he’s received verbal approval from the government to build… Read More

Elon Musk unveils a parking lot prototype for The Boring Company’s car elevator

The billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, says he spends only about 2 percent of his time working… Read More

Warning: Elon Musk posts dizzying views of his first tunnel boring tests in L.A.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, demonstrated once again that he’s serious about boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles. But… Read More

Elon Musk digs into his fixation with boring transit tunnels in a non-boring TED talk

When billionaire Elon Musk sat down for a 40-minute TED talk last week in Vancouver, B.C., he could have started… Read More