The Boring Company
American infrastructure and tunneling company
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| February 2025 | The Boring Company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Roads & Transport Authority (Dubai) to build the Dubai Loop, a tunnel transportation system with an initial plan of 11 stations to transport 20,000 passengers per hour. |
| 2024 | Prufrock 3 (P3) demonstrated actual tunneling performance of 40-46 meters per day, falling short of the original planned seven miles per day goal. |
| April 2024 | The Boring Company's work in Las Vegas was named among the 'Dirty Dozen' worst workplace safety offenders in the US by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health. |
| March 2024 | The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors voted to extend the existing tunnel and address the safety concerns raised by OSHA violations. |
| February 2024 | OSHA fined the Boring Company $112,000 for eight serious safety violations, including allegations of workers suffering chemical burns from sludge in tunnels. |
| October 2023 | OSHA investigation concluded, identifying multiple serious safety violations at the Boring Company's tunnel sites. |
| June 2023 | Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigation began, revealing safety violations at the Boring Company's tunnel construction sites. |
| May 2023 | The Boring Company received permission to expand the Vegas Loop underground transportation system to 69 stations, with planned extensions to casinos, Harry Reid International Airport, Allegiant Stadium, downtown Las Vegas, and eventually to Los Angeles. |
| April 2023 | The second Not-a-Boring Competition was conducted in Texas, featuring five teams from four countries. TUM Boring won again, achieving a maximum velocity and demonstrating their tunnel-drilling capabilities. Swissloop Tunneling finished second and won the innovation award. |
| April 2023 | The Boring Company moved their headquarters and engineering facilities to Bastrop, Texas, located approximately east of the Texas Gigafactory. |
| 2022 | The company was cited by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for five violations of Texas environmental regulations. |
| August 2022 | Prufrock 2 was unveiled, with Engadget reporting its capability to dig up to a mile per week. |
| July 2022 | A tunnel to Resorts World Las Vegas was opened. |
| April 20 2022 | The Boring Company announced an additional $675 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at approximately $5.675 billion. The round was led by Vy Capital and Sequoia Capital, with participation from multiple venture capital firms. |
| 2021 | The Boring Company completed the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop, a three-station transportation system with multiple tunnel segments. |
| October 2021 | Clark County Commissioners approved a 50-year franchise agreement for a 52-stop, mostly-underground transportation system in Las Vegas, with the Boring Company planning to build five to ten stations in the first year. |
| October 2021 | The tunnel officially opened, using standard Tesla vehicles with human drivers for transportation. |
| September 2021 | The first Not-a-Boring Competition was held in Las Vegas, with 12 teams invited after a technical design review from 400 initial applicants. TUM Boring from Technical University of Munich won the competition by excavating a tunnel using a pipe jacking method with an innovative revolving pipe storage design. |
| August 2021 | Fort Lauderdale began final negotiations with The Boring Company for the tunnel project, with Mayor Dean Trantalis estimating the total cost between $90-$100 million for a round-trip tunnel including stations. |
| August 2021 | The Boring Company held preliminary discussions with Cameron County officials about constructing a tunnel from South Padre Island to Boca Chica Beach in South Texas, which would pass under the Brownsville Ship Channel and provide an alternative access route to SpaceX's Boca Chica facility. |
| July 2021 | The Boring Company proposed a tunnel project in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, connecting downtown to the beach, called the 'Las Olas Loop'. |
| June 8 2021 | The tunnel system began transporting convention attendees. |
| May 2021 | Volunteer testing demonstrated the tunnel system's capability to transport 4,400 passengers per hour. |
| February 2021 | San Bernardino County Transportation Authority approved beginning contract negotiations with The Boring Company to build a tunnel connecting Ontario airport with Rancho Cucamonga Metrolink/Future Brightline West train station. However, The Boring Company did not submit a proposal after a third party became involved in studying project impacts. |
| February 2021 | Miami mayor Francis Suarez announced Elon Musk's proposal to dig a two-mile tunnel under the Miami River for $30 million, with a proposed six-month construction timeline, significantly cheaper than the local transit authority's $1 billion four-year estimate. |
| 2020 | The Boring Company released rules for a student tunnel-boring competition, inviting participants to design and demonstrate tunnel-drilling solutions. |
| 2020 | The Boring Company unveiled Prufrock 1, their first custom-designed tunnel boring machine, primarily used for testing purposes. |
| December 2020 | The company leased two buildings in an industrial complex northeast of Austin, near the Texas Gigafactory. |
| November 2020 | The Boring Company announced hiring for positions in Austin, Texas. |
| May 2020 | The boring of the second tunnel was completed, expanding the total tunnel network. |
| February 14 2020 | First tunnel construction was completed, with excavation averaging a significant daily progress rate. |
| 2019 | The Boring Company discussed a transportation link between San Jose International Airport and Diridon station as an alternative to an $800 million traditional rail project, which was later abandoned. |
| 2019 | A draft Environmental Assessment for the Washington, DC to Baltimore transportation project was completed, though the project was subsequently removed from the company website. |
| November 2019 | Steve Davis became the company president, having been one of the earliest SpaceX hires in 2003 and leading efforts for Musk since 2016. |
| November 15 2019 | Boring of the first tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center began. |
| July 2019 | The Boring Company sold $120 million in stock to venture capital firms after raising $113 million from Musk and not-a-flamethrower sales during 2018. |
| May 2019 | The Boring Company won a $48.7 million project to construct a tunnel loop underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). |
| January 2019 | Elon Musk responded to an Australian parliament member's tweet about a potential tunnel project through the Blue Mountains, proposing a tunnel construction with estimated costs of $750 million for the tunnel and $50 million per station. |
| 2018 | The Boring Company began offering 20,000 branded 'flamethrowers' for preorder, which sold out in just a few days. After customs concerns, Elon Musk cleverly renamed the devices 'Not-A-Flamethrower' to facilitate imports. |
| 2018 | The Boring Company proposed building a tunnel called the 'Dugout Loop' connecting Vermont Avenue to Dodger Stadium. By an unspecified later date, the project was removed from the company's website. |
| 2018 | The Boring Company proposed developing a test tunnel parallel to Interstate 405 and adjacent to Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The project was ultimately abandoned due to public opposition and lawsuits. |
| 2018 | The Boring Company won a bid to construct a high-speed underground transportation link between downtown Chicago and O'Hare Airport, known as the Chicago Express Loop. However, the project was later dropped and did not proceed to implementation. |
| 2018 | The original Hyperloop plan was replaced with a new proposal to build a route following the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, with the Maryland Transportation Authority officially approving the project. |
| 2018 | The Boring Company was spun off as a separate corporation from SpaceX. |
| 2018 | The R&D Tunnel (Hawthorne test tunnel) was completed by The Boring Company, serving as a test facility for hyperloop and loop-based transportation technologies. |
| December 18 2018 | Launch day of the Boring test tunnel, where Tesla Model X vehicles operated using guided busway-style side-facing guide wheels, traveling at high speed through the tunnel. |
| December 18 2018 | Rescheduled date for the test tunnel opening ceremony. |
| December 10 2018 | Original scheduled date for the test tunnel opening ceremony. |
| October 17 2018 | The Boring Company applies for permission to paint the building at 12003 Prairie Avenue in the company's black-and-white corporate colors, in preparation for opening 'The Brick Store'. |
| October 5 2018 | Hawthorne City Council grants an easement for tunnel construction in exchange for a $2.5 million structural encroachment fee. |
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