Karnataka Vehicle Registrations May 2026: 1,74,121 Units, +15.8% YoY
Full Vahan registration report for Karnataka in May 2026 — total volume, year-on-year and month-on-month change, where the state ranks nationally, and the segment and fuel mix behind the number.
Karnataka in May 2026
1,74,121 vehicles were registered in Karnataka in May 2026. Volume rose sharply 15.8% against May 2025 and slipped 6.1% against April. Its best month on record remains October 2025 at 2,56,820.
That made Karnataka the 4th largest vehicle market in India in May 2026, behind Tamil Nadu on 1,84,388 and ahead of Gujarat on 1,58,413.
That is 6.8% of every vehicle registered in the country that month, +0.26pp against May 2025.
Across 2026 to date — the 5 months of the year that have closed — Karnataka has registered 9,28,627 vehicles, +22.2% on the same months of 2025.
Karnataka monthly registrations
Every calendar year on record, month by month. The running month is left off the line until it closes.
What Karnataka buys
70.2% of everything registered in Karnataka in 2026 is two-wheelers, and the state accounts for 7.0% of that segment nationally. Against the national mix, Karnataka skews towards taxis and cabs — +0.92pp more of its book than India as a whole.
This split is the calendar year to date. Vahan publishes a state's registrations by month, and a state's registrations by vehicle class, but never the two together — so the volumes here cover 2026 rather than May 2026 alone. There is no manufacturer-by-state table anywhere in the source, which is why no page here claims to know which brand leads in Karnataka.
Karnataka by segment, 2026
Calendar year to date — exact, but with no month axis.
| Segment | 2026 units | Share of state | Share of segment | vs national mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-Wheelers | 10,69,294 | 70.2% | 7.0% | −0.49pp |
| Cars & UVs | 2,34,116 | 15.4% | 7.1% | +0.15pp |
| Goods Carriers | 55,505 | 3.6% | 7.7% | +0.31pp |
| Three-Wheelers | 54,811 | 3.6% | 5.5% | −1.01pp |
| Tractors | 48,060 | 3.2% | 6.2% | −0.44pp |
| Taxis & Cabs | 35,248 | 2.3% | 11.7% | +0.92pp |
| Other | 17,839 | 1.2% | 11.8% | +0.47pp |
| Buses | 7,920 | 0.5% | 8.3% | +0.08pp |
"Share of segment" is this state against every other state in the same segment. "vs national mix" is how much more (or less) of this state's book the segment is than it is of India's.
What Karnataka runs on
13.6% of Karnataka's 2026 registrations are battery electric — 2,07,284 vehicles, against a national average of 10.4%. A year earlier the state was at 10.6%. CNG and LPG account for 5.5% here against 5.6% nationally.
Fuel, like segment, is published against the state for the whole calendar year rather than by month, so these shares are 2026 to date. Hybrids are counted separately from battery electrics.
| Fuel | 2026 units | Share in state | Share in India | vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 10,33,578 | 67.9% | 71.7% | −3.40pp |
| Diesel | 1,60,140 | 10.5% | 10.6% | −0.07pp |
| CNG / LPG | 84,081 | 5.5% | 5.6% | +0.48pp |
| Electric | 2,07,284 | 13.6% | 10.4% | +2.96pp |
| Hybrid | 27,877 | 1.8% | 1.4% | +0.13pp |
| Other | 9,833 | 0.6% | 0.3% | −0.10pp |
Every state, May 2026
Registrations by state for May 2026, exact and directly comparable — this is the one state table on the desk that has a real month axis behind it, so the year-on-year column compares the same month a year earlier rather than a part year against a whole one.
| # | State | May 2026 | Share of India | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | 4,11,615 | 16.0% | +0.8% |
| 2 | Maharashtra | 2,52,940 | 9.8% | +10.0% |
| 3 | Tamil Nadu | 1,84,388 | 7.2% | +25.9% |
| 4 | Karnataka | 1,74,121 | 6.8% | +15.8% |
| 5 | Gujarat | 1,58,413 | 6.1% | +18.1% |
| 6 | Bihar | 1,45,582 | 5.6% | −4.2% |
| 7 | Rajasthan | 1,43,974 | 5.6% | +21.1% |
| 8 | Madhya Pradesh | 1,35,371 | 5.3% | −0.7% |
| 9 | West Bengal | 1,18,134 | 4.6% | +8.1% |
| 10 | Telangana | 1,00,279 | 3.9% | +25.7% |
| 11 | Haryana | 91,307 | 3.5% | +13.9% |
| 12 | Kerala | 87,451 | 3.4% | +25.3% |
| 13 | Andhra Pradesh | 83,975 | 3.3% | +26.9% |
| 14 | Odisha | 83,203 | 3.2% | +21.1% |
| 15 | Delhi | 69,803 | 2.7% | +0.5% |
Karnataka month by month
The last 15 months on record for Karnataka. The running month is left without a year-on-year figure.
| Month | Registrations | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 (live) | 34,161 | — |
| August 2026 | 1,85,655 | +13.0% |
| July 2026 | 1,85,633 | +36.7% |
| June 2026 | 1,88,717 | +31.6% |
| May 2026 | 1,74,121 | +15.8% |
| April 2026 | 1,85,441 | +25.7% |
| March 2026 | 2,02,948 | +27.9% |
| February 2026 | 1,69,506 | +28.9% |
| January 2026 | 1,96,611 | +14.4% |
| December 2025 | 1,31,432 | +16.7% |
| November 2025 | 1,81,768 | −0.4% |
| October 2025 | 2,56,820 | +27.3% |
| September 2025 | 1,39,518 | +2.1% |
| August 2025 | 1,64,336 | −0.8% |
| July 2025 | 1,35,813 | −2.2% |
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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.
