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Daniel Patrascu

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"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush

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Daniel loves writing, or so he claims. and he once loved to use his 10-words-per-minute typing skills to bring you a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry, rather than keeping you up to speed with new vehicles and their performances.

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.
Purpose-Built Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicle eVITA Will Leave You Speechless
Purpose-Built Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicle eVITA Will Leave You Speechless

23 Mar 2024, 11:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you don't live in the UK then the name Motability Operations probably doesn't ring any bells. And yet, we're forced to bring it up because their latest gimmick has all the makings of a great future vehicle. Motability is a Brit...

 
10 Electric Motorcycles Under $5,000 (and Which Are Really Worth It)
10 Electric Motorcycles Under $5,000 (and Which Are Really Worth It)

23 Mar 2024, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of last week we had an intimate look into the world of super cheap motorcycles, the ones that are sold for under $5,000. I'm talking here, naturally, about the internal combustion ones, but still cheap enough to be both the perfect ...

 
How to Take NASA-Style Photos of the Great North American Eclipse and Not Lose Your Sight
How to Take NASA-Style Photos of the Great North American Eclipse and Not Lose Your Sight

22 Mar 2024, 19:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Solar eclipses are among the few grandiose celestial shows we humans can enjoy firsthand and still feel relatively safe as they happen. But eclipses are dangerous in some sense too, especially to the eyes of the onlooker. You all know how an ecl...

 
LiveWire S2 Mulholland Is the Electric Performance Cruiser You Might Have Been Waiting For
LiveWire S2 Mulholland Is the Electric Performance Cruiser You Might Have Been Waiting For

22 Mar 2024, 15:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Not long ago, Harley-Davidson made an attempt to get a foothold in the electric motorcycle segment as the first company of its size to do so. The effort manifested itself first as a motorcycle called LiveWire, but the thing failed to impress both i...

 
NASA Will Say Who Is Making the Crew-Rated Moon Rover for Artemis Missions on April 3
NASA Will Say Who Is Making the Crew-Rated Moon Rover for Artemis Missions on April 3

21 Mar 2024, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Contrary to what one would have expected after American space agency NASA announced it is delaying the launch of the Artemis II and III mission by one year, work on making human presence on the Moon a constant seems to have accelerated. From rocket...

 
DARPA Is Considering Putting Trains on the Moon, Needs Someone to Build It a Railway First
DARPA Is Considering Putting Trains on the Moon, Needs Someone to Build It a Railway First

21 Mar 2024, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Moon has become the center of attention for pretty much all ongoing space exploration efforts currently taking place on Earth. Naturally, the most visible such efforts have to do with how we'll get there and what we'll do while on sit...

 
Mercedes-Benz Brings a New PHEV SUV to the American Market, Enter the GLC 350e 4MATIC
Mercedes-Benz Brings a New PHEV SUV to the American Market, Enter the GLC 350e 4MATIC

21 Mar 2024, 08:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For about a decade or so, lovers of compact luxury crossovers have had something truly spectacular to turn to: the Mercedes-Benz GLC. Introduced in 2015, the SUV has quickly become a pillar of the German carmaker's offensive in the segment, an...

 
The Lexus LY 680 Was Not Made for the Road, New Japanese Luxury Yacht on the Horizon
The Lexus LY 680 Was Not Made for the Road, New Japanese Luxury Yacht on the Horizon

21 Mar 2024, 07:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese carmaker Lexus has established itself over the years as the maker of some fine luxury vehicles. Spawn from Toyota in 1989, the brand is now one of the pillars of its segment in several of the world's largest markets. But Lexus is not ...

 
Mercedes-Benz Could Deploy Humanoid Robots in Its Car Factories
Mercedes-Benz Could Deploy Humanoid Robots in Its Car Factories

20 Mar 2024, 11:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Robots of different shapes and sizes have formed a parallel backbone of automotive manufacturing for decades now. Most of them industrial in nature, they are used in various stages of the assembly process, without completely eliminating the need fo...

 
2024 Triumph Rocket 3 Storm Is Here, Still Has the World's Largest Production Bike Engine
2024 Triumph Rocket 3 Storm Is Here, Still Has the World's Largest Production Bike Engine

20 Mar 2024, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was exactly 20 years ago when British bike maker Triumph introduced in series production a motorcycle model with an engine so large it would most likely would have fitted better under the hood of a car. Rocket 3 was the name of the bike, and 2,2...

 
2024 Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 Launched as the Company's Largest Displacement Naked Bike
2024 Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 Launched as the Company's Largest Displacement Naked Bike

20 Mar 2024, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Austrian bike maker Husqvarna is known for many things, but one can't argue the company's most celebrated lineup of motorcycles is the naked one, divided into two families, the Vitpilen and Svartpilen. And one of them just got a new membe...

 
For 30 Minutes in February the Moon Had a Functional Position Beacon
For 30 Minutes in February the Moon Had a Functional Position Beacon

19 Mar 2024, 15:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been two weeks since America's first American commercial uncrewed mission to the Moon ended, and we're only now starting to get our first glimpse at exactly how important the flight was for the future of space exploration. On...

 
Lifting Body Aircraft Could Be Used to Study the Atmosphere of Giant Alien Planets
Lifting Body Aircraft Could Be Used to Study the Atmosphere of Giant Alien Planets

19 Mar 2024, 14:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since the dawn of aviation many years ago aircraft have established themselves as fixed-wing machines capable of taking to the sky. Why winged? Well, for the simple reason that such a design is the most effective that we know of that can gener...

 
USAF Tells Pilots Who Fly at the Speed of Sound to Slow Down While on a Motorcycle
USAF Tells Pilots Who Fly at the Speed of Sound to Slow Down While on a Motorcycle

19 Mar 2024, 13:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Perhaps one of the most iconic scenes in cinema is the one showing a young Tom Cruise on the back of a Kawasaki GPz900R racing an F-14 Tomcat fighter jet as it took off. It's a scene from the original Top Gun, obviously, and it helped a lot wi...

 
The 5 Computer Brains of the New Audi Q6 e-tron and How They'll Shape the Future
The 5 Computer Brains of the New Audi Q6 e-tron and How They'll Shape the Future

19 Mar 2024, 12:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This week marked the launch of the new Audi Q6 e-tron into the world. Undoubtedly one of the most important premieres of the automotive world this year so far, the SUV that is meant to kickstart a "new generation of electrically powered vehicl...

 
NASA's Upcoming Telescope Will Count the Stars in Our Galaxy in About a Month
NASA's Upcoming Telescope Will Count the Stars in Our Galaxy in About a Month

18 Mar 2024, 11:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over the past few years, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) stole the spotlight when it comes to incredible pieces of hardware that are meant to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. And for good reason, as this incredible and very expensive too...

 
Honda Brings Russian Ivan in American Homes With Amazon AI-Generated Prologue Ads
Honda Brings Russian Ivan in American Homes With Amazon AI-Generated Prologue Ads

18 Mar 2024, 08:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Not long from now the first-ever all-electric SUV wearing the Honda badge will arrive in American dealerships. Called the Prologue, the vehicle is hoped to draw to the brand at least a fraction of the large pool of Americans going for such things. ...

 
Third Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX Trip Points to a Max Range of 819 Miles on a Single Charge
Third Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX Trip Points to a Max Range of 819 Miles on a Single Charge

18 Mar 2024, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A little more than two years ago German carmaker Mercedes-Benz pulled the wraps off a rather peculiar vehicle in its lineup. Called the Vision EQXX, it is meant to be a research vehicle into how effective electric cars can be. When it unveiled t...

 
These Are the Numbers Behind NASA's Space Launch System Block 1B Mega Rocket
These Are the Numbers Behind NASA's Space Launch System Block 1B Mega Rocket

17 Mar 2024, 08:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In November 2022 American space agency NASA kicked off its second Moon exploration program with the launch of the Artemis I mission. It was the first time the organization used its new and mega-powerful Space Launch System rocket and the Orion caps...

 
1974 Chevy C10 Boogie Nights Is a Former USAF Pilot's Idea of a Fine Custom Pickup Truck
1974 Chevy C10 Boogie Nights Is a Former USAF Pilot's Idea of a Fine Custom Pickup Truck

17 Mar 2024, 07:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Generally speaking, a car and truck customizer's former job matters little when it comes to the vehicles they now roll out their garage doors. But when that customizer describes himself as a proud USAF veteran, that little piece of information...

 

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