https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/bmw-shows-off-car-that-changes-color-at-the-touch-of-a-button Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:00:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/bmw-shows-off-car-that-changes-color-at-the-touch-of-a-button#comment-441357 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:00:37 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/bmw-shows-off-car-that-changes-color-at-the-touch-of-a-button#comment-441357 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.

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