Prufrock is designed to “porpoise,” meaning it launches directly from the surface, mines underground, and re-emerges upon completion. This allows Prufrock to begin tunneling within 48 hours of arrival onsite and eliminates the need to excavate expensive pits to launch and retrieve the machine.

#Prufrock is designed to tunnel at a speed greater than 1 mile per week, which is 6 times faster than The Boring Company's previous generation TBM (Godot+). This is still 4-5 times slower than a garden snail...but Prufrock is catching up! Prufrock’s medium-term goal is to exceed 1/10 of human walking speed, which is 7 miles per day.

#Gigafactory Texas is an automotive manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas built by Tesla, Inc. A 2,500 acre facility along the Colorado River that produces Model Y and Cybertruck.