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.
Harley-Davidson Korrida Is a Three-Wheeler Limo With No Roof
21 Jun 2023, 09:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I don't know about you, but I personally never witnessed a Harley-Davidson Tri Glide passing me by on the street. In fact, if I really think about it, I've never seen this kind of motorcycle-derived three-wheeler outside the dealerships&#...
2024 Ducati Multistrada V2 S Gets New Black & Street Grey Overalls
21 Jun 2023, 09:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Italian bike maker Ducati made a habit of releasing its new bikes for the coming model year in the final months of the current one. For the rest of the year, the company limits itself to updating the rest of the range with new colors and equipment....
Boeing Expects $8 Trillion Worth of Airplanes to Be Sold by 2042. That's 42,595 New Jets
20 Jun 2023, 14:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Covid pandemic took its toll on the world to a degree not experienced before by our society. It affected lives and businesses with equal force, and for a rather long period of time no one was sure when things would return to normal. Somehow,...
This Messerschmitt Bf 109 Is the Only Other Survivor of Spanish Civil War's Condor Legion
20 Jun 2023, 13:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the three years preceding the start of the Second World War, another major conflict was raging in Spain. Taking advantage of the fighting between the country's Republicans and Nationalists, Nazi Germany sent personnel there to gain battlefi...
Virgin Galactic to Start Civilian Astronauts Ops in August, Monthly Flights Planned
20 Jun 2023, 12:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been more than a year since both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin flew a number of private citizens to the edge of space, and we were all expecting space tourism to have been a thing already. For whatever reason, that didn't happen ye...
New Rolls-Royce Small Gas Turbine Ideal for eVTOLs to Enter Testing
20 Jun 2023, 11:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the Paris Air Show in full swing, we're simply flooded with exciting bits of news from the aerospace industry. And even info not directly linked to the event in France's capital seem to neatly fall into place. Just as other player...
Bultracker 04 Siebla Is a Custom Birthday Gift for a Harley-Davidson Dealership
20 Jun 2023, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In a number of cases, Harley-Davidson dealerships across the European continent are also the places where some American-made two-wheelers get modified. That's because the most prominent such businesses also have a customization component, and ...
This Facility in Georgia Is Where Stellantis Will Start Its Offensive on the eVTOL Market
20 Jun 2023, 09:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With all the advancements taking place all around us when it comes to the transportation sector, it's hard to get a good idea of what the future will look like, and what exact tech will be adopted on a large scale. Will it be the flying cars c...
ACHILE Project to Give Dismounted Soldiers HUDs and Exoskeletons Very Soon
19 Jun 2023, 14:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you take a quick look at what's going on with military hardware, you'll notice that a lot of research is going into developing new vehicles: airplanes, ground vehicles, drones, you name it. With very few exceptions, no one seems to be ...
Gray Eagle Drone Flies With Cosworth-Backed 200 HP Engine for the First Time
19 Jun 2023, 13:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of military drones, the Gray Eagle is a sort of a veteran. Having had its first flight back in 2004, it entered service five years later in the hands of the U.S. Army. That means it's been in our skies for some 14 years, and when ...
NASA's Dreams of a Low-Earth Orbit Economy Will Be Fueled by These 7 Companies
19 Jun 2023, 13:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In a relatively short period of time, space exploration has gone from being mostly an exclusive government activity to being the new promised land of human endeavors. After the rise of private space companies showed just how economically sound thei...
Hydrogen-Powered Hypersonic Scramjet Engine Is Now Protected Under American Law
19 Jun 2023, 11:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of hypersonic vehicles is getting increasingly interesting, with a number of companies already working on designs that should make high-Mach travel inside our planet's atmosphere a reality. And given how with more companies involved ...
Harley-Davidson Dark Magic Has the Back of a Dragon, Extras Are Not Very Expensive
19 Jun 2023, 10:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After years and years of growing in importance for motorcycle fans all over the world, the custom bike industry is now as solid as they get. What that means is that there are now established garages playing in this industry, names everybody knows a...
American Valkyrie Drones to Be Flown by AI Pilots, Become Immune to Electronic Warfare
19 Jun 2023, 09:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the best ways to bring down a military drone is to jam its comms and GPS. Since most of these pieces of weaponry still rely on remote control to conduct military operations, disrupting their ability to receive instructions and determine wher...
The 15 Fastest Bikes in the World (as of 2023)
18 Jun 2023, 17:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Historically speaking, the motorcycle as we understand it today barely predates the automobile. One year before Carl Benz applied for a patent for his "vehicle powered by a gas engine," his German countrymen Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm M...
The Mysteries and Wonders of the Sea Zero Electric Cruise Ship
17 Jun 2023, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the uninitiated, or at least for those of us who don't usually take cruises, the name Hurtigruten may not mean all that much. But should the company succeed in creating the "world's most energy-efficient cruise ship", it may...
Harley-Davidson Blackbird Is the Only Custom Bike in the World Inspired by a Chase Boat
17 Jun 2023, 22:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not uncommon in the custom motorcycle industry for a certain project to be nod to a person, some other object (most often cars and other wheeled contraptions), or event. And we've seen that happening plenty of times over the years, e...
NASA's Newest X-Plane Plans to Revolutionize Aircraft Wing Design
16 Jun 2023, 23:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A quick look at all the major industries of our world will paint the picture of a species fighting to undo the harm that's been done to the planet, in the decades since we discovered we could burn fossil fuels to move around, warm up, and ligh...
Harley-Davidson Eldorado Is a Perfect Heritage Custom with a Minimum of Fuss
16 Jun 2023, 22:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you've been watching our coverage of custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles these past few years, then you know the Heritage model occupies a very special place in this industry. Not only because it's rarer to come across than say the over...
MQ-4C Triton Sees Everything Happening in the Gulf of Alaska During Massive Military Drill
16 Jun 2023, 12:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not long now until the American military gets its hands on a brand new intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting (ISR&T) drone. Called MQ-4C Triton, the platform is scheduled to receive its initial operational capabilit...