The company that work up a 1.7 - mile farseeing , one - lane,35 mph car tunnelunderneath the Las Vegas convention center and called ittransportation innovationis making Modern moves in Texas .
Elon Musk ’s Boring Company has applied to build a secret tunnel beneath Tesla ’s Gigafactory in Austin . Thebuilding program , first identified ina reportfrom Electrek , was filed with the city of Austin on Tuesday .
The new papers is shortsighted on details , but states that , “ the applier is purport private access burrow along with associated melioration . ” The project is named “ Colorado River Connector Tunnel , ” and the name and address present for location is 12733 Tesla Rd ( nothing codification : 78725 ) , which is on thenorth endof the Giga building complex . Based on the diligence , the pop the question burrow would be about two mil long .
The Boring Company’s Las Vegas “loop” remains just a single lane for Tesla cars to drive slowly on, underground. Ground-breaking stuff.Photo:Ethan Miller / Staff(Getty Images)
As a bonus , the filing identifies the task site as being located within 100 feet of a 100 - year floodplain . The Gigafactory is butt against by the Colorado River and its wetlands . Given Musk’simpeccable understandingof how cloak-and-dagger tunnels are impacted by surface conditions shape , it seems like nothing could go wrong here . Exhibit A , this tweet :
Underground tunnels are resistant to airfoil weather conditions ( tube are a good example ) , so it would n’t weigh to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the surface . You would n’t even comment .
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)April 24 , 2022
Except , of class , subways floodall the clock time . And it does n’t need to be a 100 - year flood tide . My Brooklyn stop gets dicey after a few hour of heavy rainfall .
Musk moved Boring ’s central office to Pflugerville , Texas ( just northwards of Austin ) in 2020 . Since then , the company hasfiled developmentpermits for trial run sites in the country , but this nominate burrow is the first plan that ’s march on to a building permit app , according to Electrek .
It ’s unclear from the app what the exact spirit of the Texas burrow might be . It could be a pilot site for some mysterious fresh technology , an underground lair , a pedestrian walk , or — most likely — another Boring car tunnel ( dub plainly “ loop ” ) , entail to shuttle Musk and his minions across the factory campus .
So far , the only operational loop is the one underneath the Vegas formula center , but the company has big plans to elaborate in Nevada and has also been eyeing site in multiple other locations .
Just last week , Boring received approval to make its bigLas Vegas loop plans even big . The company declare the proposed arrangement of tunnels would be more than 34 miles , as oppose to the original 29 .
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