

Hill, the convention center CEO, said that the Boring Co. “People need confidence they will be safe. “Will tourists want to use underground travel after Covid-19?” asked Stephen Miller, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. If people do attend CES and other conventions in person, they may do so in smaller numbers and will likely be more cautious about how they travel. However, with a succession of trade groups cancelling conferences around the world, it is unclear whether CES will be held in-person in 2021, even though its organizers say it will move ahead-with provisions such as extra cleaning and more space between seats. transit system in Las Vegas is slated to come online in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in January. But Tesla has had an easier time in Nevada, where its battery-making Gigafactory has ramped production back up with little fanfare. Adding: “If anyone is arrested, I ask that it be only me.” President Trump tweeted his support Tuesday for the factory’s restarting, and local authorities in California haven’t escalated the conflict. Tesla reopened the factory “against Alameda County rules,” Musk tweeted on Monday. Things have not gone as smoothly for Musk in California, where he’s clashed with local officials over restarting production at a Tesla factory in Fremont. The milestone comes just one year after the LVCVA approved the project, and the completion of both tunnels signals remarkably speedy progress for major infrastructure construction. is “somewhat ahead,” making him confident that the company’s planned transportation network will be open to the public on time, by January. “From a construction standpoint, we’re comfortably in the schedule,” said Steve Hill, the authority’s chief executive officer. to collect its next portion of a total $48.7 million in payment from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The event marked the final phase of excavation for the project’s two main transportation tunnels and will allow Musk’s Boring Co. factory in California, his tunnel-drilling company hit a new milestone in Nevada.Ī giant drill called Godot Plus broke through a wall near the spot where it will connect to the Las Vegas Convention Center. While the billionaire clashed this week with local officials over restarting production at a Tesla Inc.

(Bloomberg) - Not all of Elon Musk’s projects have been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic.
