2.4.0.80007 - Disclosure - Description of Businesstruefalsefalse1false falsefalseFrom2013-01-01to2013-06-30http://www.sec.gov/CIK0001453420duration2013-01-01T00:00:002013-06-30T00:00:001true 1ecau_DescriptionOfBusinessAbstractecau_falsenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00falsefalsefalsexbrli:stringItemTypestringfalse0Description Of Business2false 2us-gaap_NatureOfOperationsus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00<div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; text-align: left"><font style="display: inline; font: bold 10pt Times New Roman">Note 1 – Description of Business</font></div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block"><br /> </div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; text-align: justify"><font style="display: inline; font: 10pt Times New Roman">Canterbury Resources, Inc. (“Canterbury”) was organized under the laws of the State of Nevada on September 2, 2008. Canterbury’s initial business plan was to acquire and explore mineral properties.</font></div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block"><br /> </div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; text-align: justify"><font style="font: italic bold 10pt Times New Roman; display: inline">Exchange Agreement</font></div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block"><br /> </div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; text-align: justify"><font style="display: inline; font: 10pt Times New Roman">On September 21, 2012 Echo Automotive LLC (“Echo”) and DBPJ Stock Holding, LLC, sole member of Echo (the “Echo Member”) entered into an exchange agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with Canterbury. The Exchange Agreement resulted in the Echo Member receiving a total of 52,500,000 shares of common stock of Canterbury in exchange for 100% of the issued and outstanding units of Echo. In accordance with the terms of the Exchange Agreement, the shares received by the Echo Member represented 70% of the issued and outstanding common stock of Canterbury at the time of the Exchange Agreement. As part of the exchange, Canterbury changed its name to Echo Automotive, Inc.</font></div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block"><br /> </div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; text-align: justify"><font style="font: italic bold 10pt Times New Roman; display: inline">Operations</font></div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block"><br /> </div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; text-align: justify"><font style="display: inline; font: 10pt Times New Roman">Echo Automotive, Inc. (the Company) is developing a set of technologies that it believes will reduce overall fuel expenses in commercial fleet vehicles by augmenting existing powertrains with highly efficient electrical energy delivered by electric motors powered by Echo’s modular plug-in battery modules. Echo believes this technology will achieve an immediate return on investment for each individual vehicle in a fleet.</font></div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block"><br /> </div> <div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; text-align: justify"><font style="display: inline; font: 10pt Times New Roman">The Company’s operations have previously been funded by advances and subsequent equity conversions by the majority stockholders. Future funding is expected to be provided in part by equity investments from other accredited investors. There can be no assurance that any of these strategies will be achieved on terms attractive to us.</font></div>falsefalsefalsenonnum:textBlockItemTypenaThe entire disclosure for the nature of an entity's business, the major products or services it sells or provides and its principal markets, including the locations of those markets. If the entity operates in more than one business, the disclosure also indicates the relative importance of its operations in each business and the basis for the determination (for example, assets, revenues, or earnings).Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6927468&loc=d3e6003-108592 false0DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESSfalseDescription of BusinessUnKnownUnKnownUnKnownUnKnowntruefalsefalseSheethttp://echoautomotive.com/role/DescriptionOfBusiness12