In a statement, Musk said that his disappointment in the plans for California's high-speed rail inspired him to work on a better plan. Musk said on Twitter Monday that he pulled an "all nighter" working on designs for what he has called a "fifth mode of transportation." A rendering of...
In June, Musk also won a bid to build ahigh-speed trainfrom Chicago’s O'Hare International Airport to downtown. The new rail line, or Chicago Express Loop, will see 12-minute trips in electric vehicles called "skates," from the airport's new terminals to the Block 37 super-station do...
Elon Musk’s idea for defeating congestion by tunnelling underneath it seemed like a joke when he firsttweeted about itfrom a traffic jam in December 2016. Now, his Boring Company has won a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to build a high-speed underground rail link between Chic...
which is why, for example, California has spent ~$7 billion dollars and several years on high-speed rail, but only has a 1600 ft section of concrete to show
“the Starship program is being smothered by a mountain of government bureaucracy that grows every year.” He wrote, “This stifling red tape is affecting all large projects in America, which is why, for example, California has spen...
Billionaire innovatorElon Muskis known for his California rocket and electric car businesses, but he looked to the Midwest to show he is serious about building an ultra-high-speed underground rail system from New York to Washington, D.C. ...
continuing to churn through potential picks for the next head of the Transportation Department, with the current crop of names including a former reality TV star, a former executive at Uber and a former Republican lawmaker from California who regularly lambasted his state's high-speed rail ...
did the same with the hyperloop concept in 2012.Muskclaimed a 350-mile-long hyperloop linking Los Angeles to San Francisco could be completed in a decade and would cost under $6 billion. It would do a better job than California's proposed high-speed rail network at a fraction of the ...
Did Musk Propose Hyperloop to Stop California High-Speed Rail? Crewed SpaceX Flight To Mars In Four Years? Whatever You Say, Elon It’s not clear exactly how many children he plans to make for Mars, but NYT reports he recently told employees he believes there will be a million people li...
Elon Musk's high-speed tube train will enter its first phase of construction soon, but a civil engineer's critique outlines Hyperloops challenges.