CHAMELEON BMW IX FLOW
Are you bored watching the same colour of your car? If yes then soon you will be getting solution of your problem. BMW group will be launching a car soon which is capable of changing colour. This newly launched car will allow its user to change the colour of the car.
(The Quiver) BMW company announced a chameleon car that changes colour, in the latest attempt by automotive firms to combine their vehicles with cutting-edge technology. On Jan 5, the BMW group debuted a concept vehicle called the BMW iX Flow.
The German car firm said it was “bringing the car body to life” with the specially developed body wrap for its all-electric iX SUV model, which uses the same technology as Amazon’s Kindle e-reader.
At the touch of a button, a driver can change the shade of the car’s exterior, allowing the colour to shift between black and white or even light and dark stripes by activating electronic ink in the wraparound shell.
“You decide what you want to wear, what your social media status is – and you can decide what your car looks like,” said Stella Clarke, BMW’s project lead on the vehicle. Clarke added that the technology could be used to locate the car by making it flash when the driver is looking for it, or to display the vehicle’s battery capacity externally.
“The car dresses you, it expresses you not just from the inside but from the outside so we have tried to create a technology and adapted it to the car that allows you to do that,” Christoph Grote, senior vice president of electronics at BMW Group, he further said during a roundtable interview during the launch. He also noted that being able to change a vehicle from dark to light while driving under hot temperatures would help with efficiency and thermal regulation inside the vehicle.
TECHNOLOGY USED IN CAR DEVELOPMENT
According to BMW, the effect is created by applying an electrical charge to microcapsules – which contain particles of white and black pigments – suspended within a liquid encased in the wrap. The colour alternates depending on whether a negative or positive charge is applied, causing either the white or the black pigments to collect at the surface of the microcapsule. This technology is known as electrophoretic technology.
