How BMW iX can change color

In January, at CES 2022, BMW showed the iX electric crossover, which can change body color. How he does it? Yes, just elementary - through the application. Just make one click on your smartphone. You can even animate. Let's see what it looks like.

This cool modification was called "Flow" - it really can change the color of the body at the touch of a button. The very idea of such a "chip" is based on E Ink digital ink technology - similar to that used in e-books. The car body is completely covered with sheets of so-called "electronic paper" ePaper. This coating is created from millions of microcapsules, inside which are differently charged particles of white and black pigments. The diameter of the capsules, according to the developers, does not exceed the thickness of a human hair.

As a result, by pressing a button, applying an electric current to the electronic paper, it is possible to achieve "floating" of pigment particles of one or another shade to the surface of microcapsules.

Oh, what progress has come!