Daniel Patrascu
18,861 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
Following several years off the grid, Daniel is back at autoevolution, and seeing how the great crisis of the past decade made the auto industry boring, he grew bored with it too, so he slowly shifted his focus to custom cars, custom motorcycles, and other weird stuff. He also loves ranting about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
During his time at autoevolution, Daniel put his name on more news articles, coverstories, auto guides, reviews, and editorials than we care count. To slow him down a bit, he was given more responsibilities not long ago, so he is now also in charge with coordinating the editorial team on autoevolution.com.
Long time ago, Daniel also translated Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Fountains of Paradise” to Romanian for Paladin Publishing.
NASA Has a Huge Dust Problem Over on the Moon, Calls in HuLC to Handle It
2 Jul 2024, 12:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Landing on the Moon is something humanity has done before and, hopefully, will do again with relative ease once the Artemis program really gets going. At least that’s how it looks from the sidelines, because if you really dig into the matter ...
U.S. Readies Its Mightiest Drones to Target Long-Range Weapons
2 Jul 2024, 11:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Longe-range weapons are some of the most dangerous tools of war. Usually launched from places that are beyond the defenders' reach, they can strike fast and hard, most of the time without being touched by defenses. But now the U.S. is bringing...
Fixed-Wing VTOL Made by Boeing's Aurora Gets Fuel Cell Power and More Range
2 Jul 2024, 09:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones are a common sight in the skies of the modern world, and we're used to seeing them go about their business in a helicopter-style configuration. But more and more companies are now working on fixed-wi...
World's Most Famous Military Helicopter Gets New Engines So It Can Live to Be 100
2 Jul 2024, 08:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A little more than a year ago, in January 2023, Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky announced it had produced the 5,000th Black Hawk helicopter, a feat that only went to attest to the aircraft's reliability. After all, we're talking about a p...
Mysterious Hypersonic Vehicle Named After the Greek Furies Makes First Successful Flight
1 Jul 2024, 17:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are so many organizations and people working to advance hypersonic technologies these days that it's becoming increasingly hard to keep track of them all. And even if you can keep track, the fact that many of these technologies are highl...
Navy Super Hornets Are Singing Their Swan Song With the Most Capable Version Yet
1 Jul 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American aerospace giant Boeing is at the center of attention these days for all the wrong reasons, but that doesn't mean there aren't aspects of the business that don't go as planned. Like, say, the company's work on keeping th...
U.S. Will Build Combat Drones Like Cars, Here’s the First One Flying
1 Jul 2024, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Whenever one sets out to make a new aircraft, a lot of research and development (but also money), are needed. Most of the time these efforts pay off, but what you're left with at the end of all the work is a singular platform that rarely can g...
1976 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Is an All-Original Museum Piece, Looks Best in the Driveway
1 Jul 2024, 07:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the time of writing, autoevolution's car database contains 7,241 car models produced by 130 brands since time immemorial. And let me tell you, from the huge vehicle pool the number of cars that deserve a place in the museum is incredibly sm...
NASA Finds Life Ingredients in Samples From Asteroid That Was Once Part of a Wet World
30 Jun 2024, 09:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a while since America brought back its first-ever samples of an asteroid (the capsule containing the precious material landed in the fall of 2023), and we were about to forget all about it. But last week, NASA stepped up and announce...
Nyobolt EV Achieves 10 to 80 Percent Charge in 4 Minutes 37 Seconds
29 Jun 2024, 11:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There was a time when the players in the automotive industry were busy rolling out always faster and more powerful cars. Somehow, the industry positioned itself in such a way that speed (+ acceleration) and horsepower were the only things that matt...
SpaceX Gets $843 Million to Crash and Burn the International Space Station
28 Jun 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not long now, folks, until the most important and successful space habitat the human species has ever made will crash and burn into Earth's atmosphere. In 2030, the International Space Station (ISS) will intentionally be brought down...
The King of KTM Enduro Bikes, the 300 EXC Hardenduro, Gets Refreshed for the 2025 MY
28 Jun 2024, 09:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of off-road motorcycles is a very tough and competitive one, and that means we're often treated to incredible machines. But few of the bikes that play in this segment are as suited for the job as the ones called hardenduro. Significa...
Most Dirt-Worthy Suzuki V-Strom Ever Gets Badass Rally Edition
28 Jun 2024, 08:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This Friday, June 28, seems to be the perfect day for new adventure bikes to come out and play. After we've learned of Italian bike maker Ducati releasing a new, fully packed version of the DesertX, one called Discovery, the Japanese from Suzu...
Ducati DesertX Raises Shields to Boldy Go Where No Adventure Bike Has Gone Before
28 Jun 2024, 07:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It often happens for people in the market for a new motorcycle not to settle on the entry-level model of whatever bike they decide to buy. That's because entry-level bikes are only there to draw people in, and once caught in the net, guide the...
Chopped B-52 Stratofortress Could Have Carried the Space Shuttle, NASA Said No
27 Jun 2024, 10:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are probably many among you who remember what it was like to see an airplane flying in the sky with a Space Shuttle on its back. It's a sight many Americans got to experience firsthand between 1977 and 2012 as NASA was moving the Shuttle...
World's Only South African 1970 Valiant Charger With a V8 Under Its Hood Is Up for Grabs
27 Jun 2024, 08:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Whenever one speaks the word Charger in reference to a car, the mind immediately flies to the mighty Dodge machine that has dominated legal and illegal racing ever since the 1960s. The image is always accompanied by the roar of a V8 engine and musc...
NASA Flies a Battery-Powered Aircraft Engine at 27,500 Feet Without Leaving the Ground
27 Jun 2024, 07:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The electrification bug is rapidly engulfing pretty much all sides of the world's transportation industry. After spreading like wildfire in automobiles, electrification is now rapidly taking hold in the realm of motorcycles, airplanes, and eve...
Hyundai Inster Is a Weird Little Mini SUV You'll Either Love or Hate
27 Jun 2024, 06:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm not sure how many of you out there know there is a car in this world called Casper. Made by the South Koreans from Hyundai, it's a South Korea-only affair that was introduced in 2021 to fight in the city car segment. Casper, an intern...
Video Shows the Gateway Moon Space Station in Such Detail It'll Make You Dizzy
26 Jun 2024, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Soon enough, humanity will place a new space station in, well, space. It will be our species' third operational one, after the International Space Station (ISS) and the Tiangong Space Station (TSS), but the first one that will not orbit Earth,...
Land Rover Defender 130 Valiance Is the Classiest Pickup Truck Around
26 Jun 2024, 12:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you look at what the industry has to offer you'll immediately realize there is no shortage of pickup trucks to be had. From the American Fords and Chevys to the Japanese workhorses, pickups come in so many shapes, sizes, and fittings that t...