Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at the unveiling event by The Boring Company for a test tunnel of a proposed underground transportation network in Los Angeles. Picture: ROBYN BECK/REUTERSElon Musk’s tunnelling start-up The Boring Company is working on much wider tunnels than publicly announced, which could hugely expand the reach of the business.
When the company started in 2016, Tesla founder Musk spoke about tunnels hundreds of kilometres long for high-speed transportation that could “solve traffic”. But the company has scaled down its goals, pitching shorter projects within cities. Most recently, it completed 2.7km of tunnel under Las Vegas.Tom Groark, executive director of the MolesThe new pitch for its planned freight-tunnel business shows three ways that freight could be transported through its tunnels.
The constraint, she said, is cost — along with finding the right environment where a tunnel works better than a road. But keeping the larger tunnels at a standard 6.4m, instead of building to custom widths, could help keep costs down. “They’re making the job fit the machine, and that’s huge,” said Groark. Normally, he said, once tunnel boring machines finish a project, they go back to the manufacturer. Then they get modified to fit the next job at considerable expense.
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