# The Boring Company

> The Boring Company designs and manufactures tunnel-boring machines, builds underground infrastructure and operates Loop passenger systems using electric vehicles. Its operating showcase is Las Vegas, with Nashville under construction and Dubai under contract. Its commercial wager is that standardized tunnels and integrated manufacturing can make point-to-point underground transport cheaper to build.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Bastrop, United States
- **Founders:** Elon Musk (Founder)
- **Products:** Loop, Prufrock, Prufrock-MB, Tunnel construction, Cybertunnel
- **Notable:** Delivered the original three-station, 1.7-mile LVCC Loop; subsequently expanded the campus system to five stations and 2.1 miles in 2024., Company reports more than four million cumulative Vegas Loop passenger trips., Nashville hard-rock tunneling underway with two Main Beam machines by October 2026.

## Products & services

- **Loop** — Point-to-point underground passenger transport using a dedicated electric-vehicle fleet; operating in Las Vegas.
- **Prufrock** — Proprietary tunnel-boring platform with surface launch/retrieval, continuous mining and remote-operation development.
- **Prufrock-MB** — Main Beam hard-rock variant used for Nashville limestone.
- **Tunnel construction** — Transportation, utility, freight, pedestrian and bare tunnel offerings; individual deployments differ.
- **Cybertunnel** — Factory connection moving completed Cybertrucks beneath a highway at Tesla’s Austin facility.
- **Hyperloop research** — Vacuum-system test tunnel in Bastrop; a research effort rather than a commercial passenger service.

## Achievements

- Delivered the original three-station, 1.7-mile LVCC Loop; subsequently expanded the campus system to five stations and 2.1 miles in 2024.
- Company reports more than four million cumulative Vegas Loop passenger trips.
- Nashville hard-rock tunneling underway with two Main Beam machines by October 2026.
- Signed Dubai Loop implementation agreement in 2026.
- Company reports ZPIT continuous-mining demonstration in May 2025 and autonomous ring building by August 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Dubai implementation partnership announced; pilot estimate about USD 154 million, full route about USD 545 million.
- **2026-09** — Company announced USD 3 billion Series D at a USD 23 billion valuation, with an additional UAE tunnel partnership exceeding 150 km.
- **2026-10** — October 1 Nashville update says MB1 and MB2 are tunneling; MB3 planned to launch in late October and MB4 in build.

## Links

- Website: https://www.boringcompany.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boringco/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/boringcompany
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUU0JfukhilijYKenOyKqdg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boringcompany/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boringcompanyofficial

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Last updated: 2026-10-05