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.
This Is How Sunrise and Sunset Look Like on Mars, But Not Quite
16 Jun 2023, 11:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sometime in the not so distant future, humans will be able to witness with their own eyes how a sunrise or a sunset look like on Mars. True, no official mission to the Red Planet in planned yet, but we all know someday we will be going there. Un...
Harley-Davidson Seven Up Is as Tasty as the Lemon-Lime Drink Many of Us Love
16 Jun 2023, 11:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Every now and then our search for custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles brings to light some very interesting projects from all over the world. I personally am a real sucker for the ones based on models that are no longer in production because, let�...
San Francisco's Bay Area to Get eVTOL Commuter Flights Operated by United Airlines
16 Jun 2023, 08:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are countless startups working on developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles. But despite the fact news coming from this field is always spectacular, one can't help shake the feeling that exciting as they are, the...
Tempest Stealth Fighter Aircraft Is Rapidly Coming Along, First Flight Planned in 5 Years
15 Jun 2023, 14:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / About a year ago, give or take, the world learned of a new stealth fighter aircraft being in the works. It is not one being put together in America, like we've gotten used to in recent times, but by an international partnership of nations and ...
Man Behind BMW's First Ever SUV Also Designed This Stunning Interior, Not Meant for a Car
15 Jun 2023, 13:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For a while now we've been getting word of yet another electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle meant for the masses being in the works. Next week, during the Le Bourget Paris Air Show (19-25 June), the world will also get to exp...
M10 Booker Is the Army's First Vehicle Named After a Soldier Who Served in a Post-9/11 War
15 Jun 2023, 12:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you've been watching what the U.S. Army is doing in terms of overhauling its operations and gear, then you probably know the military branch is knee-deep in a modernization effort the likes of which we haven't seen in a very long time....
Building Block for DNA Discovered for the First Time Off-Earth, Saturn Moon Has It
15 Jun 2023, 11:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Enceladus is one of the some 290 traditional moons we know to exist in our solar system. Small in size, being about as wide as the state of Arizona, it spins around gas giant Saturn and is responsible for feeding one of the planet's known ring...
Achilles Custom Motorcycle Is Only Partially a Harley-Davidson, But Entirely Amazing
15 Jun 2023, 10:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The hardest thing a custom motorcycle shop can do is not create a project based on an existing two-wheeler, but go for a full custom build. That would be one together from scratch, or by using parts that don't come as a whole from somewhere. A...
Brake Hose Issue Forces Harley-Davidson York Assembly Lines to Slow Down Again
15 Jun 2023, 08:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With so many of the parts used in car and motorcycle making coming from third-party suppliers it's easy to see how fragile the entire process is. Just consider how an issue at any of these suppliers can significant effect of an automotive comp...
Tech Mimicking How Plants Works Could Be Used to Make Oxygen on the Moon and Mars
13 Jun 2023, 14:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Humanity has always dreamed of traveling to alien worlds, and in some respects (read on a very small scale), we've already done that. But hardcore dreamers imagine a time when alien worlds in our solar system will be more Earth-like and capabl...
Seven Decades-Old Chevrolet 3100 Is Such a Fine Custom It Even Makes Turquoise Look Good
13 Jun 2023, 13:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I personally am not a big fan of extravagant colors (like pink, purple, or turquoise) being used on vehicle bodies. In my view, they kind of make the vehicle they wrap around look more like a practical joke than a machine that needs to be taken ser...
Solar Thermal Propulsion and a Gravity Well Dive Could Take a Spaceship Outside Sol
13 Jun 2023, 12:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As you're reading this, NASA's records read some 250 spacecraft sent into space, carrying with them either humans or our hopes for some revolutionary discovery. None of them have actually left our solar system, with only one being close t...
Harley-Davidson Grey Buster Is CVO Insanity Taken One Daring Step Further
13 Jun 2023, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Harley's Custom Vehicles Operations (CVO) came back in the spotlight with a bang earlier in June, after it released two new touring models, the 2023 Street Glide and 2023 Road Glide. Naturally, both are still the talk of the industry, especial...
Indian Rage Is the Latest Custom Krazy Horse, Only Plays Stereophonics
13 Jun 2023, 10:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are two major bike makers on the American market, with a rivalry dating back to the beginning of the last century. And both have known success by approaching things differently, and releasing bikes that only speak to their respective fanbase....
NASA Has a New X-Plane With Unusual Wing Design, They Call It X-66A
13 Jun 2023, 08:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As it looks to cut down emissions throughout most of its industries, the United States articulated a while ago something called the Aviation Climate Action Plan. One of the goals stated there is to make the nation's aviation industry net zero ...
High Expansion Ratio Structures Could Be the Secret to Artificial Gravity in Space
12 Jun 2023, 14:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Humans have been traveling to space for more than six decades now, and for a large part of that timeframe, some of us have even been living up there. But despite the many years that have passed since the first spaceflight, we're nowhere near m...
Spartan Hypersonic Scramjet Engine Reveals More of Its Secrets Before Inaugural Flight
12 Jun 2023, 13:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's 2023, and this year we are supposed to get the first test flight of a 3D-printed hypersonic drone made over in Australia by a company called Hypersonix. And although we don't know for sure if the flight is still in the cards, updates...
2004 Chevrolet Express 3500 Turns From Bland People Mover into Cozy Home on Wheels
12 Jun 2023, 12:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chevy Express is one of the most widespread vans in North America. In production since the middle of the 1990s, with very few design changes since it first hit the market (which makes it part of a very rare breed), it comes in enough versions t...
Project Orion Was a Nuclear Bomb-Powered Starship, Here It Is Going Off in CGI
12 Jun 2023, 11:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In our day and time, the name Orion when used in connection with space exploration is linked to the Artemis program currently being run by NASA. It is the name of the spaceship meant to carry humans once again all the way to the Moon, in the hopes ...
Harley-Davidson Dominator Is a Classic Take on a Type of V-Rod We All Miss
12 Jun 2023, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in the early 2000s, American bike maker Harley-Davidson decided it was time to take on the Japanese giants of the muscle motorcycle scene. It did so by releasing into the wild something called the V-twin racing street custom (VRSC). The wor...