When The Boring Company started selling flamethrowers they sold out in just days. It sold 20,000 of the $500 "Not-A-Flamethrower" machines, which it said would "liven up any party." It's been ...

"Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging..." —Elon Musk (@elonmusk) About an hour later, Musk had already given the company a name: "It shall be called 'The Boring ...

The Boring Company is deploying the PruFrock 3 tunneling machine at Tesla Gigatexas. The PruFrock 3 machine will be able to dig continuously. It will only need to stop to change out teeth and other ...

The Boring Company is expected to ramp up its Vegas Loop expansion following the opening of multiple offshoots from the Las Vegas Convention Center to neighboring resorts. With tunnels open at Resorts ...

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The Boring Company is tunneling toward the future with a $675 million funding boost, a powerful new Prufrock tunneling machine, and bold expansion plans. Elon Musk’s vision for next-gen transit ...

Current tunnel machines only cut through the earth for ... moving out dirt and adding conduit for air or power. Musk said the Boring Co.'s breakthroughs could allow it to drill continuously ...

SEE ALSO: Behold, the boring machine for Elon Musk's Boring Company The FAQ claims that "currently, tunnels are really expensive to dig, with some projects costing as much as $1 billion per mile." ...

The Boring Company is also working on projects in Florida and Texas. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk first announced in December 2016 that he planned to buy a tunnel boring machine and “just ...

It took 10 weeks for the company’s machine, Prufrock 2, to bore the initial tunnel between the two sites. The project also marked the first in Boring’s history that didn’t rely on a crane to ...

Though construction has begun for the multiyear, $6 billion project, major digging is still at least a year away.

The Federal Railroad Administration has brought in the tunneling company to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar ...