Daniel Patrascu
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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.
2024 KTM 300 EXC Hardenduro Is Now the King of Two-Wheelers Going Over Impossible Terrain
26 Jun 2023, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The enduro motorcycle scene is a very competitive one, and that makes having a single company name dominate the segment even more extraordinary. And that company name is, how else, KTM, a moniker which has been at the top of enduro competitions for...
NASA Drops Electric Aircraft Project, Test Flight No Longer Planned
26 Jun 2023, 10:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was back in late 2019 when we learned the first in-depth details for an experimental electric aircraft that was to bring about a new era of air mobility. The project had all the components to succeed, including the involvement of NASA, and every...
Harley-Davidson "Cadillac” Has Nothing to Do With Luxury, It's a Bad Boy From the East
26 Jun 2023, 09:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Given how we've been covering the custom motorcycle scene for years now, it doesn't happen very often these days for us to stumble upon garages we knew nothing about before. From time to time though we hit the jackpot, and whenever that h...
Maker of Small Supercharged Rotary Engine Tapped by USAF for Future Powerplants
26 Jun 2023, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the moment, the name LiquidPiston may not mean all that much in this world, but chances are that will change very soon. That's because the Connecticut-based company has set out to effectively reinvent the rotary engine. The last we heard...
Someone Made a Coffee Table Out of a NASCAR Engine, Thing Weighs 425 Pounds
26 Jun 2023, 08:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The passion some people have for racing, cars, and engines makes them stop at nothing when turning their passion into something more tangible. Not even the idea of taking parts from a NASCAR engine and turning them into a coffee table for the livin...
This Is the Future AI Military Pilot, As Scary as It Sounds It's Real
24 Jun 2023, 23:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Like it or not, artificial intelligence is here and it is already changing our lives. Sure, it's not yet self-aware, meaning it can't make decisions outside its core programming, but these systems have proven they can learn and, if proper...
Blue40Two Is Such an Extreme Custom You'll Barely See the Harley-Davidson Within
24 Jun 2023, 22:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Most of the time custom motorcycle builds based on Harley-Davidsons still retain enough traits to be recognizable as Milwaukee-brewed two-wheelers. I dare you to find something that'll tell you what kind of Harley the Blue40Two is. Just lik...
These Are the 15 Best Electric Motorcycles in the World
24 Jun 2023, 19:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It may seem a bit counterintuitive, but motorcycles were first powered by electricity, and only later did they adopt combustion engines. These days, it seems, the industry is experiencing a return to those glorious origins, thanks to the rise in th...
Football-Like ThinkPlatform Is a Spherical Space Station That Could Unlock Orbital Cities
23 Jun 2023, 23:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Our generation has the fortune of living through perhaps the most exciting times for space exploration. For the first time in history, our species is not only eyeing short trips to the immediate neighborhood, but it is actively planning to colonize...
Harley-Davidson F32 Is a Mad 32-Inch Wheel Bagger, but That's Not Even the Impressive Bit
23 Jun 2023, 22:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is a belief in some circles that once you've seen a custom motorcycle you've seen them all. To some people, that creed applies to both builds based on existing platforms, and to those two-wheelers built from the ground up. In som...
Airbus to Test Hydrogen Fuel Cell as Source of Non-Propulsive Power in Airplanes
22 Jun 2023, 15:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just as the Paris Air Show is taking place in the skies over the French capital, aerospace giant Airbus announced two major developments in its quest to make aviation greener. The first is the completion of the HyPERION project. The second, somethi...
Space Tech Might Help Power Hydrogen Airplanes From 2035
22 Jun 2023, 14:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It seems that everyone in the aerospace industry is working hard to come up with alternative, greener solutions to power commercial aircraft. Whether we're talking about the mighty Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) or wackier hardware like the N...
There’s a New Solid Rocket Engine in Town, All Bow to the Kratos Zeus
22 Jun 2023, 14:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you're a videogame player, then the association between the names Kratos and Zeus will immediately have you thinking about the God of War title for PlayStation platforms. For people working in the American defense industry, the two names to...
MQ-9 "Reaper Express" Lands in the Dirt for the First Time, Doesn't Break
22 Jun 2023, 09:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Military drones are not only very expensive pieces of equipment, but they are also highly sensitive, given the nature of the payloads they usually carry. That means most of the time the soldiers operating them take great care where they put these t...
There Are Now One Million Boxer-Engined BMW GS Motorcycles in the World
22 Jun 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Exactly a century ago, in 1923, another motorcycle maker officially became a company: BMW Motorrad. Born in a country known for its passion for motorized vehicles, the brand is now the only German bike maker that matters in this world. Given how...
H-D Platinum Force Is Proof Custom Fat Boys Don't Need 300+ MM Rear Wheels to Look Good
22 Jun 2023, 08:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of metals there is nothing more precious than platinum. Just consider the fact that in the top three list of the world's most valuable metals on the planet, there are two metals from this group, rhodium and palladium. So when a mo...
This Is How Galactic Light Sounds Like, Space Music Is Surprisingly Good
21 Jun 2023, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're used to getting word of what's going on in the Universe in the form of images. After all, that's what most telescopes currently in operation do, they look at things and snap pictures. Over the past few years though, NASA taught...
Boeing T-7A Red Hawk Proves It Can Taxi Just as Well as It's Expected to Fly
21 Jun 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The American military is in the middle of an extensive modernization program, with the Air Force (USAF) taking center stage. The branch is not only looking to modernize and streamline its fleet of fighting machines, but it also eyes upgrading to n...
Harley-Davidson Launches H-D Membership to Mirror the Success of the Mighty HOG
21 Jun 2023, 11:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / About four decades ago Harley-Davidson decided it has a large enough following to create an organization unlike any other in the world. It was called the Harley Owners Group (HOG), and at half a million members today, it is the "largest factor...
Spaceship With Asteroid Bits Is Getting Closer, NASA Preps Army of Scientists to Handle It
21 Jun 2023, 11:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After decades of passively studying the solar system through remote imaging and sensing, humanity has taken a more hands-on approach to space exploration. That means we've begun collecting samples of alien worlds and bringing them back to Eart...