WATCH: How BMW Made The Incredible Color-Changing BMW iX Flow Concept

When BMW unveiled the color-changing iX Flow at CES last year it took the world by storm. Since then the company has expanded upon the technology and made plans to bring it to future cars, but it isn't finished talking about that very special BMW iX just yet. The company has released a short video chronicling how the team led by Stella Clarke took the cutting-edge E Ink technology and applied it to a vehicle for the first time.

Almost like magic, the color of the car can change from white to black in seconds with the help of an app. A dream customization option, the technology would allow owners to change their vehicle's color depending on their mood, weather, or even to portray useful info like battery levels. The company has already built upon the technology with the recently released BMW i Vision Dee, opening up even greater opportunities for customization and user interaction.

Clarke was the proponent of the technology at the company after having witnessed its capabilities firsthand saying, "I knew it was something special, something different, and that I'd try my best to get it into our products." She acquired a team for the project and then had to find a way to make the stiff, cardboard-like material fit the vehicle's contoured body panels.

When Jay Leno had the vehicle on his show, he invited BMW Engineering and Emission Test Center Vehicle Analyst Markus Brandly to explain how it works.

"E Ink is a foil that in the center of it has millions of microcapsules which hold a clear fluid with electrically charged pigment. In this particular two-ink system you have a white and a black [pigment] and by using the corresponding electric field you will manage to get the corresponding ink particle to the surface…hence you'll see the color."