This year's CES is very eye-catching, before the Sony official announcement of the car, after BMW released the world's first "color-changing car". What we want to know about today is the iX Flow concept car that BMW just released with a color-changing electronic ink (E Ink) panel.
In fact, when it comes to "color-changing cars", many people will find it incredible, and BMW will make it a reality. First of all, we must clarify the color change of the BMW iX Flow concept car, which brings users a different experience from the appearance and interior aspects, and we first look at the change in appearance.
The BMW iX Flow Concept is based on electrophoretic coloring technology developed by E Ink for coloring. We understand it bluntly that a technology called electronic ink can be controlled by electrical signals, and as human beings we can control electrical signals, so that the appearance of the body can change color. The more specific explanation is that according to the visual contour of the concept car, a more accurate custom coating is carried out, in which the coating has millions of microcapsules that are not visible to the naked eye, and each microcapsule contains two kinds of black and white pigments, white pigments are negatively charged, and black pigments are positively charged. Then the user can choose the desired hue according to the settings of the vehicle, at this time, under the stimulation of the electrical signal, the black and white pigments will change according to the user's choice, and finally form different body tones, and this process is also extremely fast, can be completed in a few seconds, so it can also form a "color change car" that we can see with the naked eye.
Of course, if only the appearance changes color, maybe BMW will appear more superficial, and see its impact on internal health, netizens may only be able to laugh at themselves, I am superficial. In fact, this truth is also very shallow, the white and black of the body has an impact on the absorption and reflection of light, and further affects the temperature of the environment in the car, so we can reflect or absorb light by controlling the color of the body, thereby adjusting the environment in the car, so that the driver and passengers can have a more comfortable space in the car.
Not only that, the heat absorbed by the vehicle is adjusted by the appearance color, which seems to have stopped here, in fact, it can reduce the energy consumption required by the vehicle's electrical system, that is to say, it can reduce fuel consumption for fuel vehicles, and for electric vehicles, it can reduce power consumption, thereby increasing the availability of vehicles.
I have to say that BMW is always giving amazing technology and products. Of course, here still have to ridicule a sentence, although I do not know whether this "color-changing" concept car is energy production, but if it can really reach the stage of sale, it seems that it is more difficult to enter the domestic market, or lose the significance of discoloration, after all, the appearance of the body in the domestic market is not the same, and it needs to be filed!