BMW demonstrates E Ink colour changing car at CES 2022

(Pocket-lint) - BMW has embraced CES 2022, not lone revealing the astir almighty mentation of its flagship BMW iX - the iX M60 - but it has besides utilized the accidental to amusement disconnected a scope of different technologies.

One absorbing objection is the colour changing car, the thought being that portion interior customisation is present communal acknowledgment to ambient lighting, you're often conscionable stuck with 1 exterior colour for your car, each of the time.

But the BMW iX Flow sees the exterior of the car utilizing a peculiar wrapper that uses E Ink technology. Yes, the aforesaid worldly that powers your Amazon Kindle and allows a alteration betwixt to antithetic shades.

But applying a complaint to the E Ink covering, the worldly flips the pigments it contains, moving betwixt acheronian and light. This allows the BMW iX Flow to alteration its exterior colour astatine the property of a button.

"The BMW iX Flow is an precocious probe and plan task and a large illustration of the guardant reasoning that BMW is known for," said Adrian van Hooydonk, caput of BMW Group design.

While this is mostly conscionable star-gazing, BMW points retired that colour changing could summation the ratio of the car, with achromatic reflecting vigor from the sun, oregon darker shades absorbing much vigor - thing that could besides beryllium applied to interior surfaces too, similar the dashboard.

Most observers volition alternatively deliberation astir however large this would beryllium arsenic a getaway car, capable to displacement colour astatine the property of a button.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 5 January 2022.