Cutting face to tunnel mouth · Today → 2013
From a tweet in a traffic jam to a tunnel network under Las Vegas. Read it like the tunnel on the left: the boring machine at the top is digging into today, and scrolling down goes back through the tunnel it’s already dug, all the way to the Hyperloop idea in 2013.
Tap a category to show only tunnels, Hyperloop, machines, or company milestones. Want everything Musk has built in one place? See the main timeline.
HyperloopPlanned
Announced: September 20, 2026
Musk announces a “simple, precursor Hyperloop tunnel” between the two Texas cities. No route or start date yet.
Key featureA trip of up to 2.5 hours in traffic in under 30 minutes, dug by a company that already builds tunnels for a living.
Read more →Company
September 10, 2026
A UAE-led funding round values The Boring Company at $23 billion, about four times its 2022 value, funding tunnels in the UAE, Las Vegas, and Nashville.
Read more →Machines
Unveiled: August 2026
A new machine for building tunnels faster.
Key featureIt hauls the 22,000-plus-pound concrete segments that line a tunnel’s walls, running on Tesla Model 3 battery packs and drive units.
Read more →Tunnels & Loops
By April 2026, the Vegas Loop has carried more than 4 million passengers across 11 stations.
Read more →Tunnels & Loops
At the end of 2025, a route toward Harry Reid International Airport opens, running partly on surface streets until the airport tunnel is finished.
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A station at Resorts World opens, the first stop at a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, as the Vegas Loop starts spreading toward hotels, the stadium, and the airport.
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A funding round values The Boring Company at about $5.7 billion.
Read more →Tunnels & Loops
Opened to the public: 2021
Teslas start carrying convention visitors through tunnels under the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Key featureA long walk across the huge convention campus becomes a ride of a couple of minutes underground, in ordinary Teslas instead of trains.
Read more →Hyperloop
At the last Pod Competition, the Technical University of Munich’s team sets the record at about 288 mph in the test tube.
Read more →Tunnels & Loops
December 18, 2018
Reporters ride through a little over a mile of tunnel under Hawthorne in modified Teslas.
Key featureA tunnel only about 12 feet across, much smaller and cheaper to dig than a subway tunnel, because it only needs to fit one car.
Company
In January, the company sells 20,000 “Not a Flamethrower” torches at $500 each in a few days: about $10 million for a tunnel company, from a joke.
Tunnels & Loops
Early in 2017, the first test tunnel starts in the SpaceX parking lot in Hawthorne. Selling Boring Company hats raises a surprising amount of money along the way.
Company
In December, stuck in Los Angeles traffic, Musk tweets that he’s going to build a tunnel-boring machine and just start digging. The Boring Company is born, and yes, the name is the joke.
Read more →Hyperloop
SpaceX announces a contest for university teams to design and build pods, and builds a roughly one-mile test tube next to its Hawthorne, California, headquarters to race them.
Read more →Hyperloop
August 2013
Musk publishes a 57-page white paper and gives the idea away for anyone to build.
Key featurePassenger pods gliding through a tube with most of the air pumped out, so there’s almost no drag: Los Angeles to San Francisco in about 35 minutes.
Read more →That’s the tunnel mouth: a white paper in 2013. For what’s announced but not dug yet, see What’s Next. For the whole story across every company, see the main timeline, or read more on the Boring Company page.
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