Color changing cars not far away?

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http://www.motorauthority.com/news/design/paramagnetic-paint-changes-color-at-the-touch-of-a-button/

I don't know if this has been posted here or not. I just found this article. Apparently some scientists have developed a type of paint that can change colors - any color the human eye can distinguish. When the car is on, it produces an electrical charge and the color can be changed. When the car is off it defaults to a white color. I think it sounds interesting, but seeing white all the time when it is parked doesn't sound that appealing (I'm not a fan of white, those that are would love it :dopey:).
 
This would be great for me. Black or gun metal gray during most of the year and white during summer so my dash doesn't desolve. :dopey:
 
It's wrong to usurp the natural right that a car has to rust. Color helps us discern which car is ours. It would be like going back to 1908, and every parked car being black. I'm not in favor of it at all.
 
I can't remember where I read this, but it does sound kinda meh. As cool as it would be to be able to drive around in whatever color car you want, most of the time it will be white. And a lot of cars don't look their best in white. Although, for cars that are amazing in white, this would be quite a breakthrough. And I'm sure that cost and other things will prevent this from becoming mainstream enough to see fields of white in parking lots. Chameleon paint never caught on either.
 
:lol: Chameleon paint.. Silly NFSers.. Tricks are for kids.

Some cars don't look good at all in white. Although I'd be hard pressed to find a current Mercedes product that looks ugly in white. That may be a neat option.

It should be a mandatory retrofit for people with two tone cars, so they can make the car all one color. Case in point: Buick Rendezvous. And My nerdwagon is guilty of being two tone as well. :(

But I like the idea of self healing paint. The look on someone keying a car's face... "But.. I just etched a phallus there.. Wha!?" :lol:
 
The battery may be powerful enough to sustain the current, even when the engine is off. Of course, if you stayed parked for a while, your battery would die...
 
Too expensive to be feasable in production. The only people I can see spending $10,000+ on this would be hip-hop artists and anyone else looking to get an obscene amount of attention without thinking much about the money they're spending.

I'd like to have that much money.
 
It does sound cool to me but.....meh. I still prefer normal paint thank you very much. I mean sure its cool to change color of the car at any moment and in any color of your choice but the cost to develop it and that it doesn't stay permanent. But the self healing paint as well. Should keep your car looking spotless!!! 👍
 
Only possible with metal bodies. If a car is made out of synthetic material, it is not even possible.

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You can't enjoy your car when it changes into another colour because the engine has to be switched on to be able to switch colour. Unless you keep the engine running, get out of the car and watch its new colour, for about 30 sec. or so. :p
 
Adding on to Kikie's post; most cars built today don't have all-metalic bodies. Bumpers are more often then not made of plastic or fiberglass, and fiberglass/carbon/plastic hoods, roofs, trunklids and such are becoming the norm in the name of reducing weight.

I don't see (rich) people jumping over this new paint; Unless they also develop a power-conducting paint, to supply the current required by this new change-color-at-will-paint.
 
mnm_bmx
It does sound cool to me but.....meh. I still prefer normal paint thank you very much. I mean sure its cool to change color of the car at any moment and in any color of your choice but the cost to develop it and that it doesn't stay permanent. But the self healing paint as well. Should keep your car looking spotless!!! 👍
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Self healing paint would be awesome. Especially if it waxed itself:tup::dopey:. And, as is the case with all technologies, it will be very expensive at first, so it will be up to rappers and celebrities to get the public hooked on them, but technology will get better so that more "normal" people could afford it, although it will probably never get to the point that everybody could affort it.

kikie
Only possible with metal bodies. If a car is made out of synthetic material, it is not even possible.
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Wouldn't it have to be steel? I haven't heard anything about the wonderful conductive properties of Aluminum....

You can't enjoy your car when it changes into another colour because it has to be switched on to be able to switch colour. Unless you keep the engine running, get out of the car and watch its new colour.
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Everybody gets a Mercedes or GTI? Those look fabulous in white.....
 
philly cheese
Wouldn't it have to be steel? I haven't heard anything about the wonderful conductive properties of Aluminum....
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Motor Authority
The process is perfect for metal objects like cars because a continuous small current is needed to maintain the desired color. When the vehicle is switched off, the car returns to a default color of white.
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I'm just repeating what the text says.


philly cheese
Everybody gets a Mercedes or GTI? Those look fabulous in white.....
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I agree, some cars look great in white.
 
I would think that because the color changing is related to the spacing of the iron oxide crystals in the paint, you could cut the current and leave the crystals in the same position that they were in when the car was on...but I'm no expert in the chemistry and physics of iron oxides.
 
Wolfe
I would think that because the color changing is related to the spacing of the iron oxide crystals in the paint, you could cut the current and leave the crystals in the same position that they were in when the car was on...but I'm no expert in the chemistry and physics of iron oxides.
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While you could very well be right, I might say different. The ability to move the iron oxides must mean that there is some fluidity in the substance, so the particles would move freely. And I am assuming that the particles require energy to both move and hold them. Cutting the power would mean there is nothing holding them in place and so they would go back to their idea location.

Just a guess.
 

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