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Elon Musk’s Boring Company announces plan to tunnel under Nashville

2025-07-30T12:03:53-04:00

Elon Musk's Boring Company has announced plans to dig tunnels under Nashville, creating a loop that will connect the city's downtown with the Nashville International Airport. The Boring Company says it will begin construction "immediately" following approval and expects the first 10-mile phase to be operational as early as next year, as reported earlier by TechCrunch.

In 2021, The Boring Company opened its first "loop" in Las Vegas, where it uses a fleet of human-operated Tesla vehicles to transport people across the city's convention center. It has since expanded the tunnel to connect the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) route with nearb …

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Elon Musk’s DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability

2025-04-28T09:01:31-04:00

Elon Musk's expansive portfolio of companies could avoid more than $2.37 billion in potential legal liability due to his unprecedented influence over the US government, a new Senate report finds.

The figure comes from a report assembled by Democratic staff for the Senate Homeland Security permanent subcommittee on investigations (PSI) probing the impact of Musk's closeness with President Donald Trump and creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on his financial interests. The staff endeavored to quantify "the financial impact of President Trump's delegation of power on potential liabilities and scrutiny facing Mr. Musk and …

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company plan for a 69-station ‘Vegas Loop’ is anything but nice

2023-05-04T11:40:34-04:00

The Boring Company, Elon Musk's mostly unreliable tunnel digging venture, has won the approval to expand its "Vegas Loop" system to - wait for it - 69 stations. Nice? Not really.

The tunnel system is Musk's supposedly futuristic idea to alleviate road traffic by shifting some of that bumper-to-bumper traffic underground. The expansion, approved by the Clark County Commissioners, allows The Boring Company to construct 25 miles of additional tunnels for a total of 65 miles and 18 additional stations.

The original vision for the Vegas Loop was 51 stations and 29 miles of tunnels - so this represents a pretty big vote of confidence in Musk's i …

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Elon Musk’s first Hyperloop tunnel in California is gone

2022-11-03T12:55:25-04:00

The Hyperloop tube hosted student competitions in 2018 and 2019. | Photo by Pauline Acalin for The Verge

Elon Musk's first prototype Hyperloop tunnel is no more. Bloomberg reports that the roughly one-mile-long white steel tunnel running along Jack Northrop Avenue near SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, has been removed and will be replaced with parking spaces for employees.

Perhaps you'll recall that before Musk assumed the mantle of free speech champion, he set out to circumvent "soul-destroying traffic" by building the Hyperloop, a theoretical system of tunnels that would revolutionize transportation. He also claimed to be able to dig tunnels faster and more efficiently than most current tunnel boring systems, which he rightly ar …

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Elon Musk’s ‘Teslas in Tunnels’ Las Vegas project is still happening, and here’s the first station

2022-06-30T16:03:31-04:00

The first passenger station in the "Vegas Loop" network of vehicle tunnels that's being built by Elon Musk's Boring Company was revealed Thursday. The station is situated underneath Resorts World Las Vegas, the first in what is expected to be 55 stops along 29 miles of tunnels.

The Boring Company already operates a small version of this "Teslas in Tunnels" system underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center, which opened in early 2021 and involves two 0.8-mile tunnels. Afterward, Musk's startup proposed a massive citywide expansion that was eventually approved by Clark County officials last year. The system uses human-controlled Model X and Y …

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Boring Company receives approval for expanding its tunnels to downtown Las Vegas

2022-06-15T19:10:37-04:00

Elon Musk's Boring Company has received unanimous approval to expand its system of tunnels beneath downtown Las Vegas. The expansion will add stops at landmarks like the Stratosphere and Fremont Street, letting customers hop aboard a Tesla and travel from one part of the city to the next.

The network of tunnels, called the Vegas Loop, is supposed to span 29 miles and have 51 stops when finished. But for now, only 1.7-mile tunnels are operational beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), turning what would be a 25-minute walk across the convention center into a two-minute ride. The system uses human-controlled Model X and Y vehicles to …

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company gets green light for Las Vegas tunnel system

2021-10-20T17:13:53-04:00

Elon Musk's Boring Company just won approval from local officials to move forward with building a network of vehicle tunnels underneath Las Vegas. Dubbed the "Vegas Loop," the system will allow passengers to hitch rides in Teslas to and from places like the hotel casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, the city's new football stadium, the Las Vegas Convention Center, and McCarran International Airport.

The Boring Company already operates a small version of this "Teslas in Tunnels" system underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center, which opened earlier this year and involves two 0.8-mile tunnels. But Musk's startup proposed a massive city-wide expan …

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly pitching wider tunnels that could transport freight

2021-06-18T09:32:34-04:00

The Boring Company has been pitching potential clients on a much wider tunnel than any it has built so far, Bloomberg reported, which could be used to transport freight. Since its inception in 2016, the Elon Musk-helmed tunneling startup has been focused on tunnels that would transport passengers, with a goal to "solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic" in cities. But the new pitch deck Bloomberg obtained shows how wider tunnels could be used for transporting freight, something that would greatly expand Boring's potential business.

According to Bloomberg, the company's new pitch includes tunnels that are 21 feet in diameter, nearly twi …

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Boring Company proposes massive Vegas expansion following monorail bankruptcy

2020-12-15T17:50:48-05:00

Elon Musk's tunneling venture, The Boring Company, is planning a massive citywide expansion of the currently modest underground transportation system it's building in Las Vegas. The startup now wants to build a 10-mile sub-surface "loop" that serves the famous Las Vegas Strip of casino hotels and reaches the city's downtown area as well as McCarran International Airport, all with Tesla vehicles. The Boring Company also wants to build an additional loop that connects properties owned by Caesars Entertainment.

The proposed new tunnels would make it possible to go from the Las Vegas Convention Center to Mandalay Bay in just three minutes, as o …

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is hiring for a possible tunnel project in Austin

2020-11-09T16:31:18-05:00

The Boring Company, Elon Musk's tunnel-digging venture, may be eyeing its next project in Austin, Texas. The company recently posted half a dozen new jobs in the city and tweeted favorably about Austin's soil.

It's not surprising that the Boring Company would target Austin for its next project. Musk's other company, Tesla, recently announced that the city would be the site for its next factory, with a focus on Model 3, Model Y, and Cybertruck production.

Rumor has it that "Austin Chalk" is geologically one of best soils for tunneling. Want to find out? Austin jobs now available.https://t.co/imlQMDfprJ
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