Elon Musk has ambitious plans for his tunneling company — here’s what we know (TSLA)

Boring Company is currently testing a tunnel boring machine that was used for a sewer project in Sunnydale, California. The ultimate goals is to use the machine, named Godot, to learn how tunneling technology can be altered to dig tunnels faster and at a lower cost.

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Source: Boring Company tunnel presentation, courtesy of Electrek.

The Boring Company is looking to cut down costs by building a machine that can dig and place reinforcements in the wall at the same time, Musk said in April. Tunneling machines traditionally dig for half the time and then go back to add reinforcements, a longer and costlier process.

Godot has successfully dug a tunnel on SpaceX’s parking lot at the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Rocket Road in Los Angeles. The Boring Company plans to extend the tunnel another two miles, but needs to secure permits to do so.