Vehicle Vahan retail registrations

Vehicle Sales FY 2025-26: Hero MotoCorp Leads, 3,08,42,748 Units, Up 13.2% YoY

Every vehicle registered in India over FY 2025-26 — April 2025 to March 2026. India's financial year runs April to March, the window every listed automaker reports on. Month-by-month volumes, the manufacturer leaderboard, what India actually registered segment by segment, and the same window in every earlier year on record.

3,08,42,748
Vehicle registrations
FY 2025-26
+13.2%
Year on year
vs FY 2024-25 (12 mo)
25,70,229
Monthly average
12 months counted
41.71 L
Best month
October 2025
Hero MotoCorp
Period leader
61,89,678 units

Vehicle sales month by month, FY 2025-26

The Indian vehicle market registered 3,08,42,748 vehicles in FY 2025-26. Volumes rose sharply 13.2% against the 2,72,53,707 logged over the same 12 months of FY 2024-25.

October was the strongest month of the period at 41,70,653 vehicles and September the quietest at 19,31,196, an average of 25,70,229 a month. 11 of those 12 months grew on the same month a year earlier.

FY 2025-26 ran from April 2025 to March 2026 and is closed. Every month in the table below is final, and every comparison on this page is against the matching month of FY 2024-25.

Vehicle registrations by month — FY 2025-26 vs FY 2024-25

Vahan retail registrations, each month set against the same month a year earlier.

Vehicle sales, month by month — FY 2025-26

Every completed month of FY 2025-26, with the matching month of FY 2024-25 beside it.

Month FY 2025-26 units FY 2024-25 units YoY Share of period
April 2025 23,96,909 23,03,231 +4.1% 7.8%
May 2025 23,16,166 21,91,877 +5.7% 7.5%
June 2025 21,04,604 19,96,076 +5.4% 6.8%
July 2025 20,63,503 21,48,824 −4.0% 6.7%
August 2025 20,67,400 19,90,301 +3.9% 6.7%
September 2025 19,31,196 18,17,370 +6.3% 6.3%
October 2025 41,70,653 29,56,540 +41.1% 13.5%
November 2025 34,51,556 33,55,020 +2.9% 11.2%
December 2025 21,47,062 18,52,029 +15.9% 7.0%
January 2026 28,46,192 24,10,557 +18.1% 9.2%
February 2026 25,26,952 19,97,131 +26.5% 8.2%
March 2026 28,20,555 22,34,751 +26.2% 9.1%

Each month links through to its own full report.

Which manufacturer sold the most, FY 2025-26

Hero MotoCorp led the period with 61,89,678 registrations, up 11.5% on FY 2024-25. Honda 2W (HMSI) follows on 56,02,815, 5,86,863 behind — a gap of 1.10x.

The fastest riser in the top 15 was Ather Energy, up 79.6% to 2,54,506.

Top manufacturers by registrations — FY 2025-26

Total registrations across every vehicle type each manufacturer sells.

Manufacturer leaderboard — FY 2025-26

Exact registrations over April 2025 to March 2026, with the change against FY 2024-25.

# Manufacturer FY 2025-26 units Share vs FY 2024-25
1 Hero MotoCorp 61,89,678 20.07% +11.5%
2 Honda 2W (HMSI) 56,02,815 18.17% +11.1%
3 TVS Motor 42,51,081 13.78% +23.2%
4 Bajaj Auto 28,72,195 9.31% +5.2%
5 Maruti Suzuki 19,82,061 6.43% +11.3%
6 Suzuki 2W 12,00,163 3.89% +16.1%
7 Royal Enfield 11,51,370 3.73% +30.7%
8 Mahindra 9,20,003 2.98% +15.7%
9 Yamaha India 7,34,672 2.38% +9.6%
10 Hyundai 6,00,010 1.95% +2.9%
11 Tata Motors (PV) 5,49,988 1.78% +11.7%
12 Tata Motors 3,85,886 1.25% +7.6%
13 Toyota Kirloskar 3,52,199 1.14% +20.7%
14 Kia India 2,94,053 0.95% +15.3%
15 Ather Energy 2,54,506 0.83% +79.6%

What India registered in FY 2025-26

Two-wheelers dominate every Indian registration total, and FY 2025-26 is no exception: two-wheelers alone accounted for 71.9% of the 3,08,42,748 vehicles registered across the period.

Tractors grew fastest at +18.7%, and other classes slowest at +6.6%.

Market composition — FY 2025-26

Share of every vehicle registered in the period.

Registrations by segment — FY 2025-26

Exact segment volumes over April 2025 to March 2026.

Segment FY 2025-26 units Share vs FY 2024-25
Two-Wheelers 2,21,64,885 71.86% +13.1%
Cars & UVs 44,93,609 14.57% +13.1%
Three-Wheelers 14,16,970 4.59% +12.2%
Tractors 10,67,324 3.46% +18.7%
Goods Carriers 9,67,868 3.14% +11.9%
Taxis & Cabs 3,78,223 1.23% +13.9%
Other classes 2,28,340 0.74% +6.6%
Buses 1,25,529 0.41% +7.4%

Fuel mix, FY 2025-26

Battery-electric vehicles were 8.3% of every registration in FY 2025-26, against 7.5% in FY 2024-25. That is 25,45,763 electric vehicles across all segments.

Fuel labels come straight from Vahan and the split below covers the whole market over April 2025 to March 2026 — petrol includes the E20 ethanol blend, which is now the single largest label in the database.

Registrations by fuel — FY 2025-26

Every vehicle registered in the period, by fuel.

Registrations by fuel — FY 2025-26

Exact fuel volumes over April 2025 to March 2026.

Fuel FY 2025-26 units Share vs FY 2024-25 Share move
Petrol 2,30,47,100 74.72% +11.8% −0.91pp
Diesel 31,47,555 10.21% +13.9% +0.07pp
Electric 25,45,763 8.25% +24.8% +0.77pp
CNG / LPG 16,27,726 5.28% +16.3% +0.14pp
Hybrid 3,89,323 1.26% +7.0% −0.07pp
Other 85,281 0.28% +12.6% 0.00pp

Vehicle sales by financial year

Across the 2 completed windows in our Vahan record, vehicle registrations went from 2,72,53,707 in FY 2024-25 to 3,08,42,748 in FY 2025-26, up 13.2% over the stretch.

FY 2026-27 is still running — 6 of its 12 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.

Vehicle registrations by financial year

* window still in progress.

Vehicle sales by financial year
Period Months Units YoY
FY 2026-27 (to date) 6 1,55,77,060 +20.9%
FY 2025-26 12 3,08,42,748 +13.2%
FY 2024-25 12 2,72,53,707 +6.4%

Each row compares only the months that window holds, so a part period is never set against a full one.

Where the demand was, FY 2025-26

Uttar Pradesh registered the most vehicles of any state in FY 2025-26 — 42,64,566, 13.8% of the national total.

The top five states together account for 46.4% of every vehicle registered in the period.

Top states by registrations — FY 2025-26

All vehicle types, exact for the period.

Top states — FY 2025-26
# State Units Share vs FY 2024-25
1 Uttar Pradesh 42,64,566 13.8% +12.4%
2 Maharashtra 34,79,576 11.3% +17.9%
3 Tamil Nadu 23,14,636 7.5% +19.5%
4 Gujarat 22,35,690 7.2% +18.0%
5 Karnataka 20,20,191 6.5% +9.0%
6 Madhya Pradesh 17,91,928 5.8% +7.4%
7 Rajasthan 17,82,348 5.8% +9.7%
8 Bihar 15,86,804 5.1% +14.8%
9 West Bengal 13,59,910 4.4% +13.1%
10 Haryana 11,13,935 3.6% +10.5%
11 Telangana 10,62,433 3.4% +6.1%
12 Andhra Pradesh 9,81,768 3.2% +10.9%
13 Kerala 9,52,619 3.1% +21.2%
14 Odisha 9,43,125 3.1% +17.2%
15 Delhi 8,50,443 2.8% +17.9%

Frequently asked questions

How many vehicles were sold in India in FY 2025-26?
3,08,42,748 vehicles were registered in India in FY 2025-26, according to Vahan registration data covering April 2025 to March 2026. That is +13.2% against the 2,72,53,707 registered over the same months of FY 2024-25.
What period does FY 2025-26 cover?
FY 2025-26 runs April to March — April 2025 to March 2026, all 12 months complete. India's financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March, which is the year every listed automaker reports on.
Which manufacturer sold the most vehicles in FY 2025-26?
Hero MotoCorp led with 61,89,678 registrations across the period, ahead of Honda 2W (HMSI) on 56,02,815. These are each manufacturer's total across every vehicle type it sells, so they are whole-company registrations.
Which was the strongest month for vehicle sales in FY 2025-26?
October 2025 at 41,70,653 registrations. The quietest was September 2025 at 19,31,196, and the period averaged 25,70,229 vehicles a month.
Which financial year had the highest vehicle sales?
Of the 3 comparable windows in our record, FY 2025-26 is the largest at 3,08,42,748 registrations.
Are these retail sales or factory dispatches?
Retail. Every figure is a vehicle registration recorded on the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways' Vahan 4 dashboard — the same source FADA uses — not the wholesale dispatch numbers manufacturers announce each month. Registrations reach Vahan a few days after the sale, so recent months keep rising slightly for a while after they close.

Vehicle sales, other periods

More from the reports desk

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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