What is the name of Elon Musk’s tunnel-construction company, founded in 2016?

The Boring Company is Elon Musk’s tunnel-construction company, founded in 2016. Musk created it to pursue lower-cost, higher-speed tunnel construction and to explore underground transportation systems.

The company argues that tunnels could help address road congestion by adding transportation capacity below cities rather than widening roads or building more elevated infrastructure. Its projects and proposals have included vehicle tunnels, pedestrian systems, and loop-style transportation concepts.

The Boring Company tested its first tunnel in Hawthorne, California, near SpaceX headquarters. It later opened the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, a passenger-transportation system using Tesla vehicles in underground tunnels.

The name is a deliberate wordplay: “boring” refers both to excavating tunnels and to something dull. The company is separate from SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, although Musk has led or been associated with all four businesses.