Elon Musk’s The Boring Company to take on hyperloop project – TechCrunch

Elon Musk stated Sunday by way of Twitter that his tunnel-building-for-urban-transport enterprise The Boring Firm will try and construct a high-speed, and nonetheless theoretical, hyperloop within the coming years.

In 2013, Musk put out a white paper that outlined the thought of a transport system that would ship passengers and cargo in pods by a low-pressure tube at velocity in entry of 700 miles per hour. He by no means took on the mission. As an alternative, Musk shared primary engineering plans and inspired others to develop the idea. Whereas a number of firms and researchers have been steadily engaged on hyperloop for practically a decade, there may be not but a working instance of the system anyplace on the planet.

Musk based The Boring Firm in December 2016 on the premise that discovering quick and efficient methods to dig networks of tunnels for automobiles and high-speed trains would finish site visitors congestion. The Boring Firm has landed some contracts with cities, however nothing that makes use of hyperloop or high-speed transport. It’s most mature mission in Las Vegas makes use of Tesla automobiles to shuttle individuals alongside a 1.7-mile part of underground tunnels on the Las Vegas Conference Middle. Final 12 months, the corporate obtained preliminary approval for a particular use allow and franchise settlement that may enable the Boring Firm to develop its Vegas Loop system to a 29-mile route with 51 stations that would come with stops at casinos alongside the Las Vegas Strip, town’s soccer stadium and UNLV. It could finally attain the McCarran Worldwide Airport.

Musk’s Sunday tweet, wherein he was responding to a different tweet itemizing cities with the worst site visitors on the planet, comes lower than every week after The Boring Firm raised $675 million in a Collection C funding spherical that pushed its valuation to $5.7 billion.

Cities with the worst site visitors on the planet:

1. London 🇬🇧
2. Paris 🇫🇷
3. Brussels 🇧🇪
4. Moscow 🇷🇺
5. New York Metropolis 🇺🇸
6. Chicago 🇺🇸
7. Rome 🇮🇹
8. Bogota 🇨🇴
9. Palermo 🇮🇹
10. Istanbul 🇹🇷

— World of Statistics (@stats_feed) April 24, 2022

Within the coming years, Boring Co will try and construct a working Hyperloop.

From a recognized physics standpoint, that is the quickest doable manner of getting from one metropolis middle to a different for distances lower than ~2000 miles. Starship is quicker for longer journeys.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 24, 2022

He additionally claimed hyperloop, like different underground tunnels, might be additionally proof against floor climate circumstances corresponding to hurricanes. Nevertheless, there may be properly documented proof of subways, that are positioned in underground tunnels, flooding. As an example, the New York subway flooded in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy hit the coast. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has since put in floodgates in 68 low-lying subway and Port Authority Trans-Hudson) stations in Decrease Manhattan.

Underground tunnels are proof against floor climate circumstances (subways are a very good instance), so it wouldn’t matter to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the floor. You wouldn’t even discover.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 24, 2022