If you’ve ever felt indecisive about what color vehicle to buy, BMW may have the car for you. The German automaker showed off its new color-changing paint technology at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that shares more in common with a Kindle than you’d think at first glance.
The surface coating of the BMW iX Flow featuring E Ink contains many millions of microcapsules, with a diameter equivalent to the thickness of a human hair. Each of these microcapsules contains negatively charged white pigments and positively charged black pigments. Depending on the chosen setting, stimulation by means of an electrical field causes either the white or the black pigments to collect at the surface of the microcapsule, giving the car body the desired shade.
The innovative paint scheme can be triggered at the touch of a button. Right now, the colors are limited to white, black, and grey. But despite the constrained palette, BMW says it could have implications for the efficiency of its electric vehicles.
100% pointless
Not interested in this feature 😂
Lmao good luck with repairs and collisions
Banks robbers now have state of the art tech...
Very cool
It’s cool!!!
That's cool and all, but what happens when the car's scratched or dinged ... ?
Debut a new design language instead
It will take more than colour changing paint to hide the ugliness of that car! 🙈
Revolutionary 👍🏼🤗
BMW really aiming high for the future
Gimmick…..move on
İs comming ...
Rather that flashing your brights to signal speed trap ahead, just blink your whole car!
So it only has two colors? 🤔
Wasted engineering resources. EVs are what you should have worked on.
I wonder if a dent on the car will cause a malfunction to the color change in that area.
We are here for the innovation 👏
E-ink? That option will add $70k to your vehicle purchase
amingilani
stay very fine
Sir, here’s your quote to repair the scratch on your door
Right...why? Just develop a car with windows that adapts during day/night, sun, extreme weather to provide better visibility. Than I am impressed! BMW
Very strange tech! I've never thought it possible!
why? what about traffic rules, safety and cost? it is just marketing
Yup.. “These forward-looking statements are subject to uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements..”
Tech twitter, thoughts on how’s it done? I’m assuming the change in the shapes are somehow altering the color? Maybe the deep packed lines reflect stronger? Help lol
All good until the criminals use it for evasion purposes.
Only B/W suggest they are using e-ink kind of display tech. Thinking where else can we wrap it, besides on an automobile.
but... why tho?
think you scratch your car and the whole car turns into ridiculous green (green screen colour)
Make: BMW Type: mid-SUV Color: All
Electric cars bad
First one to hack this to cover the car in dicks, middke fingers and pissing Calvins wins 2022.
Yoooooo🤯
This car is anuts man like woah
A kindle on wheels
provided it's sufficiently durable this is a really cool feature.
Can't wait to have this on phones so wallpapers become wraparound skins
Let's see it after some hail and rock chips.
“suspect is fleeing in a red bmw seda… base, make that bla…wait a goddamn minute, it’s now sil…by golly not again. noooo!” *and scene
looks cool, but one could questions its purpose. feels like yet another gimmick distracting from downfalls in critical areas. shouldn’t BMW focus on more relevant things like software, battery tech & production, die out ICE?
Who asked for this? It wasn’t me…
I need this to be in production across all brands in 2 years time so I can get it on my mid-life-crisis sports car.
The police will love it!