tl;dr — Elon Musk’s Travel Itinerary Lambasted By The Washington Post
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This past week, the stock market kept panicking, everyone was looking at what is going on in the White House, and the most positive major thing that happened was Elon Musk unveiling the first Boring Company tunnel. At the same time, there was a lot of negative news regarding Tesla: 10 stories related to the stock market, 10 about a few people departing Tesla, 6 about the spontaneous combustion of a Tesla Model S (whose battery was apparently shot — like, with a gun), and the rest on various other topics.
Despite being a bicyclist, and actually because I am a bicyclist, I love electric vehicles (EVs). I love to drive EVs, but more than that, if I share the roads with cars, I want them to be zero-emissions vehicles beside me on my bicycle instead of a gas car spewing exhaust my way.
Tonight, The Boring Company took the wraps off of its demonstration tunnel in Hawthorne, California. The tunnel starts in the vicinity of the SpaceX parking lot, which was usurped for The Boring Company to start playing with its less than exciting technology.
The Boring Company plan to did a tunnel under the 405 freeway in West LA has come to an end thanks to a lawsuit filed by local residents who objected to the city allowing the project to proceed without a full environmental review.
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The Boring Company’s tunnel boring machine has broken through to the middle of the residential parking garage where the first station will be located. It has also created a new company called simply The Brick Company to sell the bricks made from the compressed earth left behind by the tunnel boring machine.
The first Boring Company tunnel in Hawthorne, California, will be opened officially on December 10 with free rides for the public the following day. What is Elon’s magic carpet ride really like? We will know soon enough.
This article is for all the CleanTechnica readers that are sick of news about Tesla’s stock price. It is a followup to the article “Musk Didn’t Inhale, and He is a Stable Genius,” which briefly summarized Elon Musk’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. In the previous article, I stated the long interview would be edited into shorter videos which would echo through the internet and social media for years to come.
The Boring Company is turning out to be anything but, as Elon Musk’s side project to bore transportation tunnels under the world’s cities has found its first customer in the Chicago Transit Authority. The Boring Company announced a project with the CTA to develop a network of tunnels connecting Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and downtown Chicago.