BMW: Body color as desired 🎥
PERSONAL NOTE Several million microcapsules make it possible. At the light touch of a button, you can change the color of the BMW iX Flow with an electrophoretic film stretched over the body of the car.
Depending on the selected setting, white or black pigments will give the desired shade.
The body foiling is oriented to the contours of the electric car. Stimulated by electrical impulses, electrophoretic technology brings different color pigments to the surface in each case, through which the body image takes on the desired color.
White and positively charged black pigments
The surface coating of the BMW iX Flow featuring E Ink contains several million microcapsules, each with a diameter equal to the thickness of a human hair. Each of these microcapsules contains negatively charged white and positively charged black pigments.
Foils also in the interior to customize the design
Depending on the setting selected, activation by an electric field ensures that either the white or the black pigments collect on the surface of the microcapsules, thus giving the body the desired shade.
Makes sense: Depending on the sunlight, the vehicle can be colored in such a way that the cooling or heating output of the air conditioning system can be turned down.
In the future, such films could also be used in the interior to customize the vehicle design, BMW announced.
Different facets of a personality
Stella Clarke, head of the BMW iX Flow featuring E Ink project: "In this way, we give drivers the freedom to externalize different facets of their personality or even the joy of diversity and to redefine them on every journey. The vehicle then becomes an ambassador of different moods and situations in daily life, similar to fashion or the status displays on social media channels."
Whether e-ink foiling will ever be offered to customers and what it might cost is still an open question.
