Electro-optically concealable vehicle instrument panel and method of constructing the same

An instrument panel of a vehicle provided with a rigid front cover panel for protecting the underlying instruments; the cover panel is electro-optical and includes: two transparent conductive layers, a liquid crystal-based material and a coloring agent that is diffused in the liquid crystal-based material, so that the colouring agent can conceal the underlying instruments when inactive and show them during excitation.