This is part 2 of a two-part series that summarizes my recent tour of The Boring Company’s Bastrop, Texas facility.

I would like to thank The Boring Company, especially Nick, David and Lisa for setting up this tour and for showing me around a fascinating location! Also, to the many employees I got to meet and talk with, thank you for making the day so special!

In this video, we look around the active Giga Texas tunneling site and look at the current plans for more than one tunnel at this location, plus the dual purpose of doing the tunnels here that benefits both Tesla and The Boring Company. I also discuss some of the innovations The Boring Company is doing with the design and production of new boring machines, and how this work parallels that of SpaceX and the Starship prototype testing and development process also underway.

In addition, look at the tunneling operations at Giga Texas and discuss two fundamental objectives The Boring Company has in the iterative design process and the overarching goal of the company to meet their near-, mid-, and long-term missions.

Did you know The Boring Company spun off from SpaceX and shares the same first-principles methodology of looking at challenges and developing solutions and the iterative design approach that SpaceX has made famous with the development of the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Dragon Capsule and now the Starship system? These concepts drive The Boring Company and its employees forward as they try to solve traffic congestion, plan for high-speed “hyperloop” travel and in the longer-term, off-world tunneling operations!

In Part 1, we concentrated on the developments at the Bastrop, Texas main facility.