Hyperloop, an Elon Musk tunnel will become a parking lot

The tunnel of Hyperloop by Elon Musk in California, il its high-speed transport system, will become a parking area. The inaugural tunnel built in 2018 in Hawthorne, California has already been demolished to make room for new parking spaces for employees of SpaceX. The news was spread by Bloombergwho verified the disappearance of the structure and the new use of the land on which it was located, by the Hawthorne City Council.

The Hyperloop prototype, that is a tunnel for the transport of goods and passengers inside low pressure pipes, about a kilometer and a half long and 3.6 meters wide, was located near Hawthorne Municipal Airport, just outside of Los Angeles. According to Bloomberg one of the contractors on the project, Erik Wright’s Precision construction services, would have heard of yours demolition in early 2022 and already at the end of October there would be no trace of the structure.

Though Bloomberg argues that the burying of the Californian tunnel is a sign of a wider one Musk’s retreat from the development of Hyperloop technologythe death of one of his first projects may not necessarily mean the death of the Boring company, Musk’s company that developed Hyperloop. The company has in fact obtained the approval of the City of Los Angeles to expand its network of underground tunnels and, by the beginning of 2022, would have been valued at 5.6 billion dollars, despite producing Tesla and not futuristic transportation capsules. at low pressure.

However, according to commentators, the closure of the Hawthorne tunnel would be part of Musk’s plan relocating many of its core businesses from California to Texas. According to the Texan newspaper My San AntonioMusk would have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to create a new Boring Company headquarters in the suburbs of Austin, Texas, while SpaceX is already firmly established in Boca Chica.