Hybrid Sales Q3 FY 2025-26: 1,08,714 Units, Up 11.2% YoY
Every hybrid registered in India over Q3 FY 2025-26 — October 2025 to December 2025. Q3 of the financial year, October to December. Month-by-month volumes, the manufacturer leaderboard, which segments those hybrids are in, and the same window in every earlier year on record.
Hybrid sales month by month, Q3 FY 2025-26
India's hybrid vehicle market registered 1,08,714 hybrids in Q3 FY 2025-26. Volumes grew 11.2% against the 97,744 logged over the same 3 months of Q3 FY 2024-25.
October was the strongest month of the period at 41,362 hybrids and November the quietest at 33,602, an average of 36,238 a month. 2 of those 3 months grew on the same month a year earlier.
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 2025-26 ran from October 2025 to December 2025 and is closed. Every month in the table below is final, and every comparison on this page is against the matching month of Q3 FY 2024-25.
Hybrids accounted for 1.1% of everything registered in India over the period, down from 1.2% in Q3 FY 2024-25. The whole market ran to 97,68,877 vehicles over the same window, up 19.7% year on year.
Hybrid registrations by month — Q3 FY 2025-26 vs Q3 FY 2024-25
Vahan retail registrations, each month set against the same month a year earlier.
Every completed month of Q3 FY 2025-26, with the matching month of Q3 FY 2024-25 beside it.
| Month | Q3 FY 2025-26 units | Q3 FY 2024-25 units | YoY | Share of period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | 41,362 | 42,410 | −2.5% | 38.0% |
| November 2025 | 33,602 | 28,180 | +19.2% | 30.9% |
| December 2025 | 33,750 | 27,154 | +24.3% | 31.0% |
Each month links through to its own full report.
Who is selling the hybrids
Vahan publishes manufacturer volumes split by fuel only across a whole calendar year, so the hybrid leaderboard below covers full-year 2025 rather than Q3 FY 2025-26 alone. It is exact for that window.
Maruti Suzuki holds 59.3% of hybrid registrations over full-year 2025, ahead of Toyota Kirloskar.
Top hybrid manufacturers — full-year 2025
Hybrid registrations only; pure battery EVs are counted separately.
| # | Manufacturer | Hybrid units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maruti Suzuki | 2,19,015 | 59.34% | −6.46pp |
| 2 | Toyota Kirloskar | 1,33,392 | 36.14% | +5.97pp |
| 3 | Mercedes-Benz | 13,679 | 3.71% | +0.65pp |
| 4 | Honda Cars | 1,011 | 0.27% | −0.11pp |
| 5 | Mercedes-Benz | 695 | 0.19% | +0.09pp |
| 6 | Jaguar Land Rover India | 478 | 0.13% | −0.04pp |
| 7 | Skoda | 360 | 0.10% | −0.03pp |
| 8 | BMW India | 193 | 0.05% | −0.05pp |
| 9 | Audi Ag | 149 | 0.04% | −0.02pp |
| 10 | Porsche Ag Germany | 38 | 0.01% | +0.01pp |
| 11 | Automobili Lamborghini S.P.A | 29 | 0.01% | +0.01pp |
| 12 | Maserati S.P.A | 19 | 0.01% | 0.00pp |
| 13 | Ferrari Spa (Importer:Select Cars P Ltd) | 14 | 0.00% | 0.00pp |
| 14 | Ferrari Spa (Importer:Navnit Motors Pvt Ltd) | 9 | 0.00% | 0.00pp |
| 15 | Mahindra | 2 | 0.00% | 0.00pp |
Which segments the hybrids are in
The chart is period-exact: it is the hybrid share of every vehicle registered in each month of Q3 FY 2025-26. The split by segment underneath comes from a calendar-year table — Vahan publishes class against fuel only across a whole year — so it covers full-year 2025.
Hybrid share of the Indian market, month by month
Hybrids as a percentage of every vehicle registered that month.
Strong, mild and plug-in hybrids together; pure battery EVs are counted separately.
| Segment | 2025 hybrid units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cars & UVs | 3,56,777 | 96.66% | +0.74pp |
| Taxis & Cabs | 10,771 | 2.92% | −0.77pp |
| Other | 810 | 0.22% | +0.04pp |
| Buses | 730 | 0.20% | −0.01pp |
| Goods Carriers | 1 | 0.00% | 0.00pp |
Fuel mix, Q3 FY 2025-26
Battery-electric vehicles were 7.0% of every registration in Q3 FY 2025-26, against 7.0% in Q3 FY 2024-25. That is 6,86,703 electric vehicles across all segments.
Fuel labels come straight from Vahan and the split below covers the whole market over October 2025 to December 2025 — petrol includes the E20 ethanol blend, which is now the single largest label in the database.
Registrations by fuel — Q3 FY 2025-26
Every vehicle registered in the period, by fuel.
Exact fuel volumes over October 2025 to December 2025.
| Fuel | Q3 FY 2025-26 units | Share | vs Q3 FY 2024-25 | Share move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 76,03,136 | 77.83% | +19.7% | +0.04pp |
| Diesel | 8,88,358 | 9.09% | +21.1% | +0.11pp |
| Electric | 6,86,703 | 7.03% | +19.5% | −0.01pp |
| CNG / LPG | 4,56,931 | 4.68% | +18.5% | −0.04pp |
| Hybrid | 1,08,714 | 1.11% | +11.2% | −0.08pp |
| Other | 25,035 | 0.26% | +14.1% | −0.01pp |
Every Q3 on record
Across the 2 completed windows in our Vahan record, hybrid registrations went from 97,744 in Q3 FY 2024-25 to 1,08,714 in Q3 FY 2025-26, up 11.2% over the stretch.
Hybrid registrations by quarter
* window still in progress.
| Period | Months | Units | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 FY 2025-26 | 3 | 1,08,714 | +11.2% |
| Q3 FY 2024-25 | 3 | 97,744 | — |
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 daily 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.
