Vehicle Sales H1 FY 2026-27: Hero MotoCorp Leads, 1,55,77,060 Units, Up 20.9% YoY
Every vehicle registered in India over H1 FY 2026-27 — April 2026 to September 2026. The first half of the financial year, April to September. Month-by-month volumes, the manufacturer leaderboard, what India actually registered segment by segment, and the same window in every earlier year on record.
Vehicle sales month by month, H1 FY 2026-27
The Indian vehicle market registered 1,55,77,060 vehicles in H1 FY 2026-27. Volumes pushed ahead 20.9% against the 1,28,79,778 logged over the same 6 months of H1 FY 2025-26.
April was the strongest month of the period at 27,26,472 vehicles and August the quietest at 24,65,170, an average of 25,96,177 a month. Every one of those 6 months grew on the same month a year earlier.
April opens the new fiscal year, usually with price revisions and a reset in dealer inventory.
H1 FY 2026-27 ran from April 2026 to September 2026 and is closed. Every month in the table below is final, and every comparison on this page is against the matching month of H1 FY 2025-26.
Vehicle registrations by month — H1 FY 2026-27 vs H1 FY 2025-26
Vahan retail registrations, each month set against the same month a year earlier.
Every completed month of H1 FY 2026-27, with the matching month of H1 FY 2025-26 beside it.
| Month | H1 FY 2026-27 units | H1 FY 2025-26 units | YoY | Share of period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | 27,26,472 | 23,96,909 | +13.7% | 17.5% |
| May 2026 | 25,78,338 | 23,16,166 | +11.3% | 16.6% |
| June 2026 | 26,04,974 | 21,04,604 | +23.8% | 16.7% |
| July 2026 | 26,34,840 | 20,63,503 | +27.7% | 16.9% |
| August 2026 | 24,65,170 | 20,67,400 | +19.2% | 15.8% |
| September 2026 | 25,67,266 | 19,31,196 | +32.9% | 16.5% |
Each month links through to its own full report.
Which manufacturer sold the most, H1 FY 2026-27
Hero MotoCorp led the period with 28,51,532 registrations, up 16.0% on H1 FY 2025-26. Honda 2W (HMSI) follows on 28,00,561, 50,971 behind — a gap of 1.02x.
The fastest riser in the top 15 was Ather Energy, up 77.4% to 1,79,845.
Top manufacturers by registrations — H1 FY 2026-27
Total registrations across every vehicle type each manufacturer sells.
Exact registrations over April 2026 to September 2026, with the change against H1 FY 2025-26.
| # | Manufacturer | H1 FY 2026-27 units | Share | vs H1 FY 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hero MotoCorp | 28,51,532 | 18.31% | +16.0% |
| 2 | Honda 2W (HMSI) | 28,00,561 | 17.98% | +22.1% |
| 3 | TVS Motor | 22,44,883 | 14.41% | +26.2% |
| 4 | Bajaj Auto | 13,77,994 | 8.85% | +13.0% |
| 5 | Maruti Suzuki | 10,37,094 | 6.66% | +27.6% |
| 6 | Suzuki 2W | 6,13,603 | 3.94% | +10.9% |
| 7 | Royal Enfield | 5,86,342 | 3.76% | +23.5% |
| 8 | Mahindra | 4,47,110 | 2.87% | +15.3% |
| 9 | Yamaha India | 3,90,403 | 2.51% | +24.5% |
| 10 | Hyundai | 2,90,525 | 1.87% | +13.1% |
| 11 | Tata Motors (PV) | 2,69,572 | 1.73% | +28.5% |
| 12 | Tata Motors | 2,12,686 | 1.37% | +28.0% |
| 13 | Ather Energy | 1,79,845 | 1.15% | +77.4% |
| 14 | Toyota Kirloskar | 1,75,492 | 1.13% | +12.7% |
| 15 | Kia India | 1,55,150 | 1.00% | +28.6% |
What India registered in H1 FY 2026-27
Two-wheelers dominate every Indian registration total, and H1 FY 2026-27 is no exception: two-wheelers alone accounted for 71.0% of the 1,55,77,060 vehicles registered across the period.
Taxis & Cabs grew fastest at +32.5%, and other classes slowest at −1.1%.
Market composition — H1 FY 2026-27
Share of every vehicle registered in the period.
Exact segment volumes over April 2026 to September 2026.
| Segment | H1 FY 2026-27 units | Share | vs H1 FY 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two-Wheelers | 1,10,53,543 | 70.96% | +20.5% |
| Cars & UVs | 23,18,975 | 14.89% | +24.7% |
| Three-Wheelers | 7,49,582 | 4.81% | +15.3% |
| Tractors | 5,50,001 | 3.53% | +20.4% |
| Goods Carriers | 5,05,764 | 3.25% | +25.9% |
| Taxis & Cabs | 2,25,970 | 1.45% | +32.5% |
| Other classes | 96,977 | 0.62% | −1.1% |
| Buses | 76,248 | 0.49% | +3.9% |
Fuel mix, H1 FY 2026-27
Battery-electric vehicles were 11.6% of every registration in H1 FY 2026-27, against 8.8% in H1 FY 2025-26. That is 18,11,903 electric vehicles across all segments.
Fuel labels come straight from Vahan and the split below covers the whole market over April 2026 to September 2026 — petrol includes the E20 ethanol blend, which is now the single largest label in the database.
Registrations by fuel — H1 FY 2026-27
Every vehicle registered in the period, by fuel.
Exact fuel volumes over April 2026 to September 2026.
| Fuel | H1 FY 2026-27 units | Share | vs H1 FY 2025-26 | Share move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 1,10,29,442 | 70.81% | +16.0% | −3.00pp |
| Electric | 18,11,903 | 11.63% | +59.8% | +2.83pp |
| Diesel | 16,18,609 | 10.39% | +19.9% | −0.09pp |
| CNG / LPG | 8,62,553 | 5.54% | +24.6% | +0.16pp |
| Hybrid | 2,18,111 | 1.40% | +34.4% | +0.14pp |
| Other | 36,442 | 0.23% | +6.7% | −0.03pp |
Every H1 on record
Across the 3 completed windows in our Vahan record, vehicle registrations went from 1,24,47,679 in H1 FY 2024-25 to 1,55,77,060 in H1 FY 2026-27, up 25.1% over the stretch.
Vehicle registrations by half year
* window still in progress.
| Period | Months | Units | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 FY 2026-27 | 6 | 1,55,77,060 | +20.9% |
| H1 FY 2025-26 | 6 | 1,28,79,778 | +3.5% |
| H1 FY 2024-25 | 6 | 1,24,47,679 | +6.6% |
Each row compares only the months that window holds, so a part period is never set against a full one.
Where the demand was, H1 FY 2026-27
Uttar Pradesh registered the most vehicles of any state in H1 FY 2026-27 — 20,52,442, 13.2% of the national total.
The top five states together account for 46.6% of every vehicle registered in the period.
Top states by registrations — H1 FY 2026-27
All vehicle types, exact for the period.
| # | State | Units | Share | vs H1 FY 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | 20,52,442 | 13.2% | +14.6% |
| 2 | Maharashtra | 16,64,393 | 10.7% | +18.2% |
| 3 | Tamil Nadu | 13,35,576 | 8.6% | +35.6% |
| 4 | Karnataka | 11,06,852 | 7.1% | +25.6% |
| 5 | Gujarat | 11,02,462 | 7.1% | +19.4% |
| 6 | Rajasthan | 8,45,967 | 5.4% | +23.2% |
| 7 | Madhya Pradesh | 7,84,188 | 5.0% | +11.9% |
| 8 | Bihar | 7,72,324 | 5.0% | +21.0% |
| 9 | West Bengal | 6,85,075 | 4.4% | +18.1% |
| 10 | Kerala | 5,83,172 | 3.7% | +34.6% |
| 11 | Telangana | 5,65,572 | 3.6% | +19.2% |
| 12 | Haryana | 5,65,080 | 3.6% | +19.7% |
| 13 | Andhra Pradesh | 5,52,359 | 3.5% | +39.8% |
| 14 | Odisha | 4,77,898 | 3.1% | +21.1% |
| 15 | Delhi | 4,40,261 | 2.8% | +17.0% |
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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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