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Loans (Details Textual)														1 Months Ended				12 Months Ended
Loans (Details Textual)	Jun. 10, 2021 USD ($)	Jun. 10, 2021 CNY (¥)	Dec. 10, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 10, 2020 CNY (¥)	Jun. 10, 2020 USD ($)	Jun. 10, 2020 CNY (¥)	Dec. 10, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 10, 2019 CNY (¥)	Jun. 10, 2019 USD ($)	Jun. 10, 2019 CNY (¥)	Jan. 07, 2019	Dec. 10, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 10, 2018 CNY (¥)	Jan. 31, 2019	Nov. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Nov. 30, 2018 CNY (¥)	Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 CNY (¥)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 CNY (¥)	Nov. 30, 2018 CNY (¥)	Nov. 09, 2018	Oct. 17, 2018 USD ($)	Oct. 17, 2018 CNY (¥)	Aug. 31, 2018 CNY (¥)	Aug. 22, 2018 USD ($)	Aug. 22, 2018 CNY (¥)	Jun. 04, 2018 USD ($)	Jun. 04, 2018 CNY (¥)	Nov. 09, 2017 USD ($)	Nov. 09, 2017 CNY (¥)	Aug. 02, 2017 USD ($)	Aug. 02, 2017 CNY (¥)	Jul. 05, 2017 USD ($)	Jun. 05, 2017 CNY (¥)	Jul. 06, 2016 USD ($)	Jul. 06, 2016 CNY (¥)	Jun. 14, 2016 USD ($)	Jun. 14, 2016 CNY (¥)
Bank Acceptances BIlls																		$ 28,911,556		$ 34,025,080
Collateral Amount																		57,521,579		55,667,476
Unutilized committed banking facilities																		15,000,000
Interest Expense, Debt																		2,270,593		1,494,275
Subsequent Event [Member]
Loans, description														The Company obtained one-year term facilities from Jilin Province Trust Co. Ltd. with a maximum amount of RMB40.0 million (approximately $5.8 million), which was secured by land use rights, buildings of Eodos Liga Energy Co., Ltd. Under the facilities, the Company borrowed RMB16.4 million ($2.4 million), RMB15.4 million ($2.2 million), RMB6.6 million ($1.0 million) and RMB1.2 million ($0.2 million) on February 1, 2019, February 22, 2019, March 8, 2019 and March 21, 2019 respectively.
Related party description											Each of Mr. Dawei Li and Mr. Yunfei Li (the Company's CEO) entered into an agreement with CBAK Power and Tianjin New Energy whereby Tianjin New Energy assigned its rights to loans to CBAK Power of approximately $3.5 million (RMB23,980,950) and $1.7million (RMB11,647,890) (collectively $5.2 million, the "Debts") to Mr. Dawei Li and Mr. Yunfei Li, respectively.
Bills receivable [Member]
Collateral Amount																		6,353,342		$ 19,047,471
Cancellation Agreement [Member] \| Subsequent Event [Member]
Related party description											Pursuant to the terms of the Cancellation Agreement, Mr. Dawei Li and Mr. Yunfei Li agreed to cancel the Debts in exchange for 3,431,373 and 1,666,667 shares of common stock of the Company, respectively, (collectively, the "Shares") at an exchange price of $1.02 per share. Upon receipt of the Shares, the creditors will release the Company from any claims, demands and other obligations relating to the Debts. The Cancellation Agreement contains customary representations and warranties of the creditors. The creditors do not have registration rights with respect to the Shares.
Bank of Dandong [Member]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity																																							$ 18,900,000
Long-term Line of Credit																																							$ 18,400,000
Line of Credit Facility, Interest Rate at Period End																																							7.20%	7.20%
Bank Acceptances BIlls																								$ 700,000															$ 500,000
Bank of Dandong [Member] \| RMB [Member]
Bank Acceptances BIlls \| ¥																									¥ 5,000,000
Bank of Dandong [Member] \| RMB [Member]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity \| ¥																																								¥ 130,000,000
Long-term Line of Credit \| ¥																																								¥ 126,800,000
Line of Credit Facility, Interest Rate at Period End																																							7.20%	7.20%
Bank Acceptances BIlls \| ¥																																								¥ 3,200,000
Bank of Dalian [Member]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity																																					$ 1,500,000
Long-term Line of Credit																																					$ 1,500,000
Line of Credit Facility, Interest Rate at Period End																																					6.525%	6.525%
Bank Acceptances BIlls																																			$ 5,800,000		$ 5,800,000
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Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity \| ¥																																						¥ 10,000,000
Long-term Line of Credit \| ¥																																						¥ 10,000,000
Line of Credit Facility, Interest Rate at Period End																																					6.525%	6.525%
Bank Acceptances BIlls \| ¥																																				¥ 40,000,000
Debt instrument discount rate																																				50.00%
China Everbright Bank Dalian Branch [Member]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity																											$ 14,500,000		$ 29,100,000		$ 14,500,000
Line of Credit Facility, Interest Rate at Period End																													6.175%	6.175%
Bank Acceptances BIlls																		4,200,000													$ 14,000,000
Pledged deposits															$ 7,300,000
Repayments of Lines of Credit												$ 120,000
Borrowings From Company															$ 14,500,000			24,300,000
Debt instrument discount rate															4.00%							4.00%				4.00%
China Everbright Bank Dalian Branch [Member] \| CBAK Power [Member]
Equity Method Investment, Ownership Percentage															100.00%							100.00%
China Everbright Bank Dalian Branch [Member] \| Scenario, Forecast [Member]
Repayments of Lines of Credit	$ 9,640,000		$ 120,000		$ 10,860,000		$ 120,000		$ 3,540,000
China Everbright Bank Dalian Branch [Member] \| CBAK Power [Member]
Equity Method Investment, Ownership Percentage																							100.00%
China Everbright Bank Dalian Branch [Member] \| RMB [Member]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity \| ¥																										¥ 60,000,000		¥ 100,000,000		¥ 200,000,000		¥ 100,000,000
Line of Credit Facility, Interest Rate at Period End																													6.175%	6.175%
Bank Acceptances BIlls \| ¥																												¥ 28,800,000				¥ 96,100,000
Pledged deposits \| ¥																						¥ 50,000,000
Repayments of Lines of Credit \| ¥													¥ 800,000
Borrowings From Company																¥ 100,000,000	$ 158,300,000		¥ 167,000,000
China Everbright Bank Dalian Branch [Member] \| RMB [Member] \| Scenario, Forecast [Member]
Repayments of Lines of Credit \| ¥		¥ 66,300,000		¥ 800,000		¥ 74,700,000		¥ 800,000		¥ 24,000,000
China Everbright Bank Dalian Branch [Member] \| RMB [Member] \| CBAK Power [Member]
Equity Method Investment, Ownership Percentage															100.00%							100.00%
China Merchants Bank [Member]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity																																	$ 14,500,000
Bank Acceptances BIlls																		3,100,000
China Merchants Bank [Member] \| RMB [Member]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity \| ¥																																		¥ 100,000,000
Bank Acceptances BIlls \| ¥																					¥ 21,300,000
Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. Dalian Branch [Member]
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Pledged deposits																		20,000
Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. Dalian Branch [Member] \| Bills receivable [Member]
Collateral Amount																		$ 2,200,000
Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. Dalian Branch [Member] \| RMB [Member] \| Bills receivable [Member]
Collateral Amount \| ¥																					14,900,000
Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. Dalian Branch [Member] \| RMB [Member]
Bank Acceptances BIlls \| ¥																					15,000,000
Pledged deposits \| ¥																					¥ 150,000