Organization	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Organization	Organization Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of technology and solutions to the automotive emissions control markets. We possess market leading expertise in emissions catalyst design and engineering for automotive and off-road applications. In particular, we have a proven ability to develop proprietary materials incorporating various base metals that replace costly platinum group metals ("PGM") and rare earth metals in coatings on vehicle catalytic converters. Our business is driven by increasingly stringent global emission standards for internal combustion engines, which are major sources of a variety of harmful pollutants. We deliver our catalyst technology through the supply of materials and technology used in the catalyst coating process as well as finished products such as coated substrates and emission control systems. We supply our proprietary catalyst technologies to catalyst manufacturers, vehicle and equipment manufacturers, integrators and retrofitters. We produce coated substrates at our ISO Technical Specifications certified manufacturing facility in Oxnard, California. In some instances, the coated substrates we produce are integrated into exhaust systems by third-party manufacturers before being shipped to our end customer. We also supply coated substrates directly to exhaust systems manufacturers for incorporation in their own products. Over the past decade, we have developed several generations of high performance catalysts, including our low-PGM mixed phase catalysts, or MPC® that are used on certain new Honda vehicles. During the same period we have developed the ability to deliver our catalyst technology to other catalyst manufacturers in the form of functional powders or material systems. Recently, we have expanded our offering of material systems beyond MPC® to include new synergized-PGM diesel oxidation catalysts, or SPGM™ DOCs, base-metal activated rhodium support, or BMARS™, and Spinel™ technologies. Most catalytic systems require significant amounts of costly PGMs to operate effectively. Our family of unique high-performance material systems, featuring inexpensive base-metals with low PGM content will enable further advances in catalyst performance. We are marketing these new catalyst technologies to other catalyst manufacturers in a proprietary powder form, which will allow them to capture the benefits of our advanced catalyst technology in their own manufacturing operations and will provide a new source of revenue for the Company.

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Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of technology and solutions to the automotive emissions control markets. We possess market leading expertise in emissions catalyst design and engineering for automotive and off-road applications. In particular, we have a proven ability to develop proprietary materials incorporating various base metals that replace costly platinum group metals ("PGM") and rare earth metals in coatings on vehicle catalytic converters. Our business is driven by increasingly stringent global emission standards for internal combustion engines, which are major sources of a variety of harmful pollutants.

We deliver our catalyst technology through the supply of materials and technology used in the catalyst coating process as well as finished products such as coated substrates and emission control systems. We supply our proprietary catalyst technologies to catalyst manufacturers, vehicle and equipment manufacturers, integrators and retrofitters.

We produce coated substrates at our ISO Technical Specifications certified manufacturing facility in Oxnard, California. In some instances, the coated substrates we produce are integrated into exhaust systems by third-party manufacturers before being shipped to our end customer. We also supply coated substrates directly to exhaust systems manufacturers for incorporation in their own products.

Over the past decade, we have developed several generations of high performance catalysts, including our low-PGM mixed phase catalysts, or MPC® that are used on certain new Honda vehicles. During the same period we have developed the ability to deliver our catalyst technology to other catalyst manufacturers in the form of functional powders or material systems. Recently, we have expanded our offering of material systems beyond MPC® to include new synergized-PGM diesel oxidation catalysts, or SPGM™ DOCs, base-metal activated rhodium support, or BMARS™, and Spinel™ technologies. Most catalytic systems require significant amounts of costly PGMs to operate effectively. Our family of unique high-performance material systems, featuring inexpensive base-metals with low PGM content will enable further advances in catalyst performance. We are marketing these new catalyst technologies to other catalyst manufacturers in a proprietary powder form, which will allow them to capture the benefits of our advanced catalyst technology in their own manufacturing operations and will provide a new source of revenue for the Company.