If you made it through Walter Isaacson’s 615-page biography of Elon Musk, you may have noticed that Musk’s tunneling venture, The Boring Company, is allotted all of three pages. I spoke with former Boring Company executives and staffers, as well as politicians and lobbyists who worked with Musk’s tunnel company on various projects, local Las Vegas residents, and engineers. I also reviewed thousands of pages of emails between Boring Company employees and local government officials, lobbying records, maps, and Boring contracts. The reality of The Boring Company is a drastically scaled-back version of the lofty vision Musk started working on in 2016. One former employee summed up the company’s predicament in a nutshell: “Elon’s idea for the Boring Company was a good one.

Source: Forbes November 28, 2023 23:02 UTC