CNG Vehicle Sales Q3 FY 2026-27 (So Far): 1,57,741 Units, Down 20.3% YoY
Every CNG vehicle registered in India over Q3 FY 2026-27 so far — October 2026. Q3 of the financial year, October to December. Month-by-month volumes, the manufacturer leaderboard, which segments those CNG vehicles are in, and the same window in every earlier year on record.
Live. Q3 FY 2026-27 is still in progress — this page grows as new registrations are published.
CNG Vehicle sales month by month, Q3 FY 2026-27
India's CNG and LPG vehicle market registered 1,57,741 CNG vehicles in Q3 FY 2026-27 so far. Volumes contracted 20.3% against the 1,97,798 logged over the same month of Q3 FY 2025-26.
October is the festive peak. Navratri and Diwali make it the single biggest registration month of most years, so year-on-year comparisons swing on where the festivals fall.
Q3 FY 2026-27 still has 2 months to run. Held at the pace of the 1 months already counted, it would finish near 4.73 L CNG vehicles — a run rate rather than a forecast, and the festive quarter moves it more than anything else on this page.
CNG vehicles accounted for 5.2% of everything registered in India over the period, up from 4.7% in Q3 FY 2025-26. The whole market ran to 30,33,135 vehicles over the same window, down 27.3% year on year.
CNG Vehicle registrations by month — Q3 FY 2026-27 vs Q3 FY 2025-26
Vahan retail registrations, each month set against the same month a year earlier.
Every completed month of Q3 FY 2026-27, with the matching month of Q3 FY 2025-26 beside it.
| Month | Q3 FY 2026-27 units | Q3 FY 2025-26 units | YoY | Share of period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 1,57,741 | 1,97,798 | −20.3% | 100.0% |
Each month links through to its own full report.
Who is selling the CNG vehicles
Our Vahan data holds manufacturer volumes split by fuel only across a whole calendar year, so the CNG leaderboard below covers 2026 year to date rather than Q3 FY 2026-27 alone. It is exact for that window.
Maruti Suzuki holds 51.7% of CNG and LPG registrations over 2026 year to date, ahead of Bajaj Auto.
Top CNG manufacturers — 2026 year to date
Factory-fitted CNG and LPG registrations only.
| # | Manufacturer | CNG units | Share | vs full-year 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maruti Suzuki | 7,74,506 | 51.66% | +5.03pp |
| 2 | Bajaj Auto | 2,72,115 | 18.15% | −6.57pp |
| 3 | Tata Motors (PV) | 1,65,831 | 11.06% | +0.25pp |
| 4 | Hyundai | 93,357 | 6.23% | +0.34pp |
| 5 | Tata Motors | 59,405 | 3.96% | +0.39pp |
| 6 | Toyota Kirloskar | 42,382 | 2.83% | +0.78pp |
| 7 | TVS Motor | 27,408 | 1.83% | +0.08pp |
| 8 | Mahindra | 18,119 | 1.21% | +0.08pp |
| 9 | Piaggio | 9,527 | 0.64% | −0.29pp |
| 10 | VECV (Eicher) | 6,810 | 0.45% | −0.03pp |
| 11 | Ashok Leyland | 6,779 | 0.45% | +0.07pp |
| 12 | Kia India | 4,788 | 0.32% | +0.19pp |
| 13 | Mahindra Last Mile | 4,326 | 0.29% | −0.05pp |
| 14 | Honda Cars | 3,692 | 0.25% | −0.07pp |
| 15 | Atul Auto | 2,192 | 0.15% | −0.08pp |
Which segments the CNG vehicles are in
The chart is period-exact: it is the CNG and LPG share of every vehicle registered in each month of Q3 FY 2026-27. The split by segment underneath comes from a calendar-year table — Vahan publishes class against fuel only across a whole year — so it covers 2026 year to date.
CNG Vehicle share of the Indian market, month by month
CNG vehicles as a percentage of every vehicle registered that month.
Factory-fitted CNG and LPG only — Vahan records the fuel a vehicle was registered with, so aftermarket retrofits are not in here.
| Segment | 2026 CNG units | Share | vs full-year 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cars & UVs | 8,00,405 | 53.39% | +5.04pp |
| Three-Wheelers | 3,02,122 | 20.15% | −5.13pp |
| Taxis & Cabs | 2,60,740 | 17.39% | +1.66pp |
| Goods Carriers | 1,07,312 | 7.16% | +0.10pp |
| Two-Wheelers | 14,456 | 0.96% | −1.83pp |
| Buses | 12,171 | 0.81% | +0.13pp |
| Other | 2,099 | 0.14% | +0.02pp |
Fuel mix, Q3 FY 2026-27
Battery-electric vehicles were 11.1% of every registration in Q3 FY 2026-27, against 5.9% in Q3 FY 2025-26. That is 3,36,545 electric vehicles across all segments.
Fuel labels come straight from Vahan and the split below covers the whole market over October 2026 — petrol includes the E20 ethanol blend, which is now the single largest label in the database.
Registrations by fuel — Q3 FY 2026-27
Every vehicle registered in the period, by fuel.
Exact fuel volumes over October 2026.
| Fuel | Q3 FY 2026-27 units | Share | vs Q3 FY 2025-26 | Share move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 22,15,895 | 73.06% | −34.4% | −7.99pp |
| Electric | 3,36,545 | 11.10% | +37.4% | +5.22pp |
| Diesel | 2,70,099 | 8.90% | −9.8% | +1.73pp |
| CNG / LPG | 1,57,741 | 5.20% | −20.3% | +0.46pp |
| Hybrid | 46,901 | 1.55% | +13.4% | +0.55pp |
| Other | 5,954 | 0.20% | −15.9% | +0.03pp |
Every Q3 on record
Across the 2 completed windows in our Vahan record, cng vehicle registrations went from 3,86,174 in Q3 FY 2024-25 to 4,57,938 in Q3 FY 2025-26, up 18.6% over the stretch.
Q3 FY 2026-27 is still running — 1 of its 3 months are counted — so it is a part window and is never set against a full one. Its year-on-year figure compares only the months it actually holds.
CNG Vehicle registrations by quarter
* window still in progress.
| Period | Months | Units | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 FY 2026-27 (to date) | 1 | 1,57,741 | −20.3% |
| Q3 FY 2025-26 | 3 | 4,57,938 | +18.6% |
| Q3 FY 2024-25 | 3 | 3,86,174 | +26.9% |
Each row compares only the months that window holds, so a part period is never set against a full one.
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Source. Every figure is a vehicle registration, taken from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways' Vahan 4 dashboard (vahan.parivahan.gov.in) — the same source FADA and the industry use for retail data. Registrations are not the wholesale dispatch numbers manufacturers announce each month. "EV" means battery electric (Vahan fuels PURE EV and ELECTRIC(BOV)); hybrids are counted separately. Information only, not investment advice.
Using these numbers? Cite "Flash Finance (Vahan data)" with a link to this page. This report's chart card is free to republish with the same credit.
