Mercedes-Benz India Sales May 2026: 1,420 Units, −6.5% YoY
Full Vahan registration report for Mercedes-Benz India in May 2026 — total volume, year-on-year and month-on-month change, where it ranks against every other manufacturer, and the segment and fuel mix behind the number.
Mercedes-Benz India in May 2026
Mercedes-Benz India registered 1,420 vehicles in India in May 2026. Volume declined 6.5% against May 2025 and eased 3.5% against April. Its best month on record remains October 2025 at 2,078.
That put Mercedes-Benz India 46th among every manufacturer registering vehicles in India in May 2026, behind Saera Electric on 1,459 and ahead of Bounce Electric 1 on 1,351.
Measured against every vehicle registered in India that month — all segments, all fuels — that is 0.1% of the market, −0.01pp against May 2025.
Across 2026 to date — the 5 months of the year that have closed — the company has registered 8,126 vehicles, −1.2% on the same months of 2025.
Mercedes-Benz India monthly registrations
Every calendar year on record, month by month. The running month is left off the line until it closes.
How the group splits
Vahan files Mercedes-Benz India as 3 separate manufacturers, so the headline above is their sum. Mercedes-Benz is the largest of them in May 2026 at 1,172 registrations, 82.5% of the group total.
Each row is a manufacturer name as the registration database itself records it.
| Entity | May 2026 | Share of group | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercedes-Benz | 1,172 | 82.5% | −18.1% |
| Mercedes-Benz | 246 | 17.3% | +179.5% |
| Mercedes-Benz | 2 | 0.1% | — |
What Mercedes-Benz India sells
98.3% of everything Mercedes-Benz India has registered in 2026 is in cars and UVs, and the company holds 0.4% of that segment nationally. Taxis and cabs is next at 1.0%.
This split is the calendar year to date and cannot be cut to a single month: Vahan publishes a manufacturer's volume by month, and its volume by vehicle class, but never the two together. Multiplying them would be a guess, so the table stays on the axis where the number is exact.
Mercedes-Benz India by segment, 2026
Calendar year to date — exact, but with no month axis.
| Segment | 2026 units | Share of company | Share of segment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cars & UVs | 12,952 | 98.3% | 0.4% |
| Taxis & Cabs | 137 | 1.0% | 0.0% |
| Two-Wheelers | 72 | 0.5% | 0.0% |
| Other | 8 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Buses | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
"Share of segment" is this company against every other manufacturer in the same segment, over the same months.
Fuel mix
9.2% of Mercedes-Benz India's 2026 registrations are battery electric — 1,210 vehicles, against 7.5% in 2025.
Fuel, like segment, is published against the manufacturer for the whole year rather than by month, so these shares are 2026 to date. Hybrids are counted separately from battery electrics.
| Fuel | 2026 units | Share | vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 1,082 | 8.2% | −2.39pp |
| Diesel | 929 | 7.1% | −0.95pp |
| Electric | 1,210 | 9.2% | +1.71pp |
| Hybrid | 9,949 | 75.5% | +1.64pp |
Every manufacturer, May 2026
Ranked on total registrations across every vehicle type, which is the finest manufacturer split Vahan publishes with a month axis. Two-wheeler makers therefore sit above carmakers selling far more value — this is a count of vehicles, not of revenue.
| # | Manufacturer | May 2026 | Share of market |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hero MotoCorp | 5,20,548 | 20.2% |
| 2 | Honda 2W (HMSI) | 4,56,319 | 17.7% |
| 3 | TVS Motor | 3,65,738 | 14.2% |
| 4 | Bajaj Auto | 2,41,519 | 9.4% |
| 5 | Maruti Suzuki | 1,72,385 | 6.7% |
| 6 | Mahindra & Mahindra | 1,05,008 | 4.1% |
| 7 | Suzuki 2W | 99,090 | 3.8% |
| 8 | Tata Motors | 87,689 | 3.4% |
| 9 | Royal Enfield | 86,974 | 3.4% |
| 10 | Yamaha India | 61,201 | 2.4% |
| 44 | SML Mahindra | 1,472 | 0.1% |
| 45 | Saera Electric | 1,459 | 0.1% |
| 46 | Mercedes-Benz India | 1,420 | 0.1% |
| 47 | Bounce Electric 1 | 1,351 | 0.1% |
| 48 | Simpleenergy | 1,325 | 0.1% |
Mercedes-Benz India month by month
The last 15 months on record. The year-on-year column compares each month against the same month a year earlier; the running month is left without one.
| Month | Registrations | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 (live) | 280 | — |
| August 2026 | 1,390 | −5.4% |
| July 2026 | 1,680 | +14.5% |
| June 2026 | 1,694 | +12.0% |
| May 2026 | 1,420 | −6.5% |
| April 2026 | 1,471 | −4.9% |
| March 2026 | 1,636 | −6.6% |
| February 2026 | 1,570 | +9.9% |
| January 2026 | 2,029 | +2.5% |
| December 2025 | 1,549 | −5.4% |
| November 2025 | 1,754 | +10.7% |
| October 2025 | 2,078 | +3.4% |
| September 2025 | 1,396 | −5.7% |
| August 2025 | 1,469 | +2.6% |
| July 2025 | 1,467 | +7.6% |
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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.
