Elon Musk surprised quite a few people last month when he revealed that his latest plans to dig tunnels would include a proposed
underground hyperloop between New York and Washington DC.
In July 2017, Musk tweeted that he received «verbal governmental approval» for Boring Company to build
an underground Hyperloop system connecting major cities in the northeast US.
underground Hyperloop route between New York and D.C., which are about 200 miles apart.
Elon Musk says The Boring Company has verbal government approval to build
an underground Hyperloop.
Beyond the Model 3 and SpaceX, the list of new projects Musk unveiled or began this year is long —
underground hyperloops, electric trucks, a new roadster — and the goals he is attempting to meet in the next few years are lofty.
Not exact matches
By building a series of
underground tunnels, Musk hopes the company will create the infrastructure for new forms of transit, like
Hyperloop, that will allow people to travel faster and face less congestion.
The ultimate goal of the Boring Company is to build an
underground tunnel network that can support cars or a
Hyperloop, but currently it's digging a test tunnel in the SpaceX parking lot.
The car elevator is just the latest mini-step towards Musk's vision of
underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called
hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.
Ultimately, Musk wants to build a network of
underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called
hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.
Is it possible to build a
Hyperloop train into a 200 - mile
underground tunnel on a reasonable timeline that moves people in 29 minutes and isn't prohibitively expensive?
Musk has used branded merchandise to raise money and draw attention toward his tunnel - boring business, The Boring Company, with which he hopes to construct
underground tunnel networks that could be used for his proposed Loop and
Hyperloop high - speed transit systems.
The Boring Company later added fuel to the fire by saying its tunnels would be used for
Hyperloops as well as Musk's
underground highways.