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The Boring Company (TBC) is an American infrastructure, tunnel construction services, and equipment company founded by Elon Musk. TBC was founded as a subsidiary of SpaceX in 2017, and was spun off as a separate corporation in 2018.
The Boring Company's contract was for $48.7 million. [4] The Boring Company first tunnel was started on November 15, 2019, digging at about 49 feet (15 m) per day; the 4,475 feet (1,364 m) first leg tunnel was completed on February 14, 2020. [5] [6] The Boring Company's second tunnel was finished in May 2020. [7]
The project to build his own company town began in 2021 according to reports by the Wall Street Journal. [8] Musk's then-girlfriend Grimes and Kanye West are also said to have been involved in the planning. [6] The name “Snailbrook” alludes to the Boring Company's stated goal of building drills that can bore tunnels faster than a snail can ...
Musk founded The Boring Company in 2017 with the vision of remaking urban transit. But Boring, which spun out of SpaceX in 2018, isn’t your everyday tunnel maker. That year, Boring created a ...
On Dec. 16, 2020, Steve Davis, an early, trusted SpaceX engineer whom Elon Musk appointed as president of the Boring Company, stepped up to the podium at City Hall in Las Vegas. He briefed the ...
There may be few places where this tension is playing out so plainly as it is at Elon Musk’s Boring Company, the tunnel construction startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital that is ...
On December 17, 2016, Elon Musk, the founder of the Boring Company, stated that he was frustrated with traffic jams, and would start building a tunnel. [6] By April 2017, The Boring Company had obtained a second-hand tunnel boring machine, transported the machine to Hawthorne, and had it repainted in Boring Company colors. [7]
Engineers and workers have been boring the 1.14-mile-long tunnel underneath one of the main streets in Hawthorne, California. One end of the tunnel starts in a parking lot owned by Elon Musk's ...