Tamil Nadu Vehicle Registrations October 2025: 2,31,188 Units, +49.4% YoY
Full Vahan registration report for Tamil Nadu in October 2025 — a vehicle-manufacturing state, and the third-largest vehicle market in India in 2025 — total volume, year-on-year and month-on-month change, where the state ranks nationally, and the segment and fuel mix behind the number.
Tamil Nadu in October 2025
2,31,188 vehicles were registered in Tamil Nadu in October 2025. Volume climbed sharply 49.4% against October 2024 and rocketed 50.0% against September. Its best month on record remains January 2026 at 2,59,452.
That made Tamil Nadu the 8th largest vehicle market in India in October 2025, behind Bihar on 2,37,774 and ahead of West Bengal on 1,49,908.
That is 5.5% of every vehicle registered in the country that month, +0.31pp against October 2024.
Across 2025 to date — the 10 months of the year that have closed — Tamil Nadu has registered 17,44,998 vehicles, +4.3% on the same months of 2024.
Tamil Nadu monthly registrations
Every calendar year on record, month by month. The dashed end of the current year is the month so far.
What Tamil Nadu buys
76.7% of everything registered in Tamil Nadu in 2025 is two-wheelers, and the state accounts for 7.7% of that segment nationally. Against the national mix, Tamil Nadu skews towards two-wheelers — +4.94pp more of its book than India as a whole.
This split is the calendar year to date. Our Vahan data holds a state's registrations by month, and a state's registrations by vehicle class, but not the two together — so the volumes here cover 2025 rather than October 2025 alone. It holds no manufacturer-by-state table either, which is why no page here says which brand leads in Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu by segment, 2025
Calendar year to date — exact, but with no month axis.
| Segment | 2025 units | Share of state | Share of segment | vs national mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-Wheelers | 16,24,954 | 76.7% | 7.7% | +4.94pp |
| Cars & UVs | 2,78,379 | 13.1% | 6.5% | −1.44pp |
| Goods Carriers | 65,228 | 3.1% | 7.1% | −0.04pp |
| Three-Wheelers | 54,321 | 2.6% | 4.0% | −2.09pp |
| Taxis & Cabs | 32,622 | 1.5% | 9.1% | +0.31pp |
| Tractors | 26,885 | 1.3% | 2.7% | −2.19pp |
| Other | 26,445 | 1.2% | 11.6% | +0.47pp |
| Buses | 9,683 | 0.5% | 7.6% | +0.02pp |
"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 Tamil Nadu runs on
7.8% of Tamil Nadu's 2025 registrations are battery electric — 1,66,233 vehicles, against a national average of 8.0%. A year earlier the state was at 6.7%. CNG and LPG account for 3.1% here against 5.3% nationally.
Fuel, like segment, is published against the state for the whole calendar year rather than by month, so these shares are 2025 to date. Hybrids are counted separately from battery electrics.
| Fuel | 2025 units | Share in state | Share in India | vs 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 16,94,170 | 80.0% | 75.0% | −0.68pp |
| Diesel | 1,63,879 | 7.7% | 10.2% | −0.21pp |
| CNG / LPG | 64,636 | 3.1% | 5.3% | −0.24pp |
| Electric | 1,66,233 | 7.8% | 8.0% | +1.12pp |
| Hybrid | 29,597 | 1.4% | 1.3% | 0.00pp |
| Other | 2 | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.00pp |
Every state, October 2025
Registrations by state for October 2025, 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 | Oct 2025 | Share of India | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | 6,11,360 | 14.7% | +66.5% |
| 2 | Maharashtra | 4,48,939 | 10.8% | +22.7% |
| 3 | Gujarat | 3,33,817 | 8.0% | +13.3% |
| 4 | Madhya Pradesh | 3,17,423 | 7.6% | +67.4% |
| 5 | Rajasthan | 3,00,947 | 7.2% | +54.7% |
| 6 | Karnataka | 2,56,830 | 6.2% | +27.3% |
| 7 | Bihar | 2,37,774 | 5.7% | +104.2% |
| 8 | Tamil Nadu | 2,31,188 | 5.5% | +49.4% |
| 9 | West Bengal | 1,49,908 | 3.6% | +31.6% |
| 10 | Haryana | 1,48,376 | 3.6% | +46.9% |
| 11 | Odisha | 1,36,366 | 3.3% | +26.0% |
| 12 | Andhra Pradesh | 1,35,137 | 3.2% | +25.8% |
| 13 | Chhattisgarh | 1,32,957 | 3.2% | +51.9% |
| 14 | Jharkhand | 1,15,176 | 2.8% | +82.3% |
| 15 | Delhi | 1,14,786 | 2.8% | +30.5% |
Tamil Nadu month by month
The last 15 months on record for Tamil Nadu. The running month is left without a year-on-year figure.
| Month | Registrations | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 (live) | 1,18,044 | — |
| September 2026 | 2,25,197 | +46.2% |
| August 2026 | 2,24,906 | +33.8% |
| July 2026 | 2,49,590 | +38.4% |
| June 2026 | 2,37,379 | +40.5% |
| May 2026 | 1,84,388 | +25.9% |
| April 2026 | 2,14,116 | +28.2% |
| March 2026 | 2,29,165 | +45.7% |
| February 2026 | 2,36,268 | +46.2% |
| January 2026 | 2,59,452 | +23.6% |
| December 2025 | 1,75,676 | +56.6% |
| November 2025 | 1,97,843 | +17.0% |
| October 2025 | 2,31,188 | +49.4% |
| September 2025 | 1,54,085 | −2.6% |
| August 2025 | 1,68,145 | +2.5% |
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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.
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