Subjects / Boring Company
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“Steve Davis and his team deserve almost all the credit for @BoringCompany progress. My role is providing engineering thoughts here and there, getting some permits unblocked and crazy merch ideas.”
— Elon Musk, 17 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Boring Company is working on a simple, precursor Hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio (>200 mph). Due to traffic congestion, that journey can currently take up to 2.5 hours. @BoringCompany can reduce that to a consistent <30 mins.”
— Elon Musk, 20 September 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“And by using tunnels you can essentially create like a wormhole, like a warp tunnel from one part of a city to another and alleviate traffic.”
— Elon Musk, 13 May 2025 · Watch: Saudi-US Investment Forum · 5:23 ↗ · In the archive
“In the coming years, Boring Co will attempt to build a working Hyperloop. From a known physics standpoint, this is the fastest possible way of getting from one city center to another for distances less than ~2000 miles. Starship is faster for longer journeys.”
— Elon Musk, 24 April 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Main Tesla subjects will be scaling to extreme size, which is needed to shift humanity away from fossil fuels, and AI. But I will also Include sections about SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company.”
— Elon Musk, 21 March 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“…we really need to be thinking about what is the transportation of the future, not the transportation of the past.”
— Elon Musk, 29 April 2020 · Watch: Tesla Q1 2020 earnings call (2020) · 39:02 ↗ · In the archive
“And the probability of something falling on your head if there are a bunch of flying cars around is much higher than if there are not.”
— Elon Musk, 18 December 2018 · Watch: Boring Company Tunnel Opening · 1:17 ↗ · In the archive
“Each flamethrower comes with a state-of-the-art The Boring Company brand fire extinguisher. Will offer a TBC ice blaster before the dry season starts in winter.”
— Elon Musk, 9 June 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“The Boring Company will be using dirt from tunnel digging to create bricks for low cost housing”
— Elon Musk, 7 May 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Apparently, some customs agencies are saying they won’t allow shipment of anything called a “Flamethrower”. To solve this, we are renaming it “Not a Flamethrower”.”
— Elon Musk, 2 February 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“What I love about The Boring Company are the low expectations. Nowhere to go but down.”
— Elon Musk, 17 May 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“So a key rebuttal to the tunnels is that if you add one layer of tunnels then that will simply alleviate congestion, it will get used up and then you’ll be back where you started, back with congestion. But you can go to any arbitrary number of tunnels any number of levels. The deepest mines are much deeper than the tallest buildings are tall…”
— Elon Musk, 28 April 2017 · Watch: TED video (2:46) ↗ · In the archive
“We have a pet snail called Gary, and Gary is capable of moving 14 times faster than a tunnel boring machine - so the ambition is to beat Gary…”
— Elon Musk, 28 April 2017 · BBC News ↗ · In the archive
“Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging... We’re trying to dig a hole under L.A. And this is to create the beginning of what will hopefully be a 3-D network of tunnels to alleviate congestion. …one of the most soul-destroying things is traffic.”
— Elon Musk, 17 December 2016 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive