Vehicle Sales 2026 (Year to Date): 2,37,71,564 Units, Up 21.8% YoY
Every vehicle registered in India over CY 2026 so far — January 2026 to September 2026. The calendar year, January to December. Month-by-month volumes, the manufacturer leaderboard, what India actually registered segment by segment, and the same window in every earlier year on record.
Live. CY 2026 is still in progress — this page updates every day as new registrations are published.
Vehicle sales month by month, CY 2026
The Indian vehicle market registered 2,37,71,564 vehicles in CY 2026 so far. Volumes pushed ahead 21.8% against the 1,95,22,217 logged over the same 9 months of CY 2025.
January was the strongest month of the period at 28,46,191 vehicles and August the quietest at 24,65,277, an average of 26,41,285 a month. Every one of those 9 months grew on the same month a year earlier.
CY 2026 still has 3 months to run. Held at the pace of the 9 months already counted, it would finish near 3.17 Cr vehicles — a run rate rather than a forecast, and the festive quarter moves it more than anything else on this page.
Vehicle registrations by month — CY 2026 vs CY 2025
Vahan retail registrations, each month set against the same month a year earlier. The lighter bar is October so far, not yet in the CY 2026 total.
Every completed month of CY 2026, with the matching month of CY 2025 beside it.
| Month | CY 2026 units | CY 2025 units | YoY | Share of period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | 28,46,191 | 24,10,557 | +18.1% | 12.0% |
| February 2026 | 25,26,955 | 19,97,131 | +26.5% | 10.6% |
| March 2026 | 28,20,548 | 22,34,751 | +26.2% | 11.9% |
| April 2026 | 27,26,472 | 23,96,909 | +13.7% | 11.5% |
| May 2026 | 25,78,335 | 23,16,166 | +11.3% | 10.8% |
| June 2026 | 26,04,981 | 21,04,604 | +23.8% | 11.0% |
| July 2026 | 26,34,889 | 20,63,503 | +27.7% | 11.1% |
| August 2026 | 24,65,277 | 20,67,400 | +19.2% | 10.4% |
| September 2026 | 25,67,916 | 19,31,196 | +33.0% | 10.8% |
Each month links through to its own full report.
Which manufacturer sold the most, CY 2026
Hero MotoCorp led the period with 43,73,072 registrations, up 17.6% on CY 2025. Honda 2W (HMSI) follows on 42,39,709, 1,33,363 behind — a gap of 1.03x.
The fastest riser in the top 15 was Ather Energy, up 80.1% to 2,61,899.
Top manufacturers by registrations — CY 2026
Total registrations across every vehicle type each manufacturer sells.
Exact registrations over January 2026 to September 2026, with the change against CY 2025.
| # | Manufacturer | CY 2026 units | Share | vs CY 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hero MotoCorp | 43,73,072 | 18.40% | +17.6% |
| 2 | Honda 2W (HMSI) | 42,39,709 | 17.84% | +24.4% |
| 3 | TVS Motor | 33,80,916 | 14.22% | +27.9% |
| 4 | Bajaj Auto | 21,36,729 | 8.99% | +14.9% |
| 5 | Maruti Suzuki | 16,20,714 | 6.82% | +23.7% |
| 6 | Suzuki 2W | 9,20,722 | 3.87% | +12.8% |
| 7 | Royal Enfield | 8,97,595 | 3.78% | +26.1% |
| 8 | Mahindra | 7,15,426 | 3.01% | +16.9% |
| 9 | Yamaha India | 5,86,932 | 2.47% | +24.6% |
| 10 | Hyundai | 4,60,445 | 1.94% | +13.0% |
| 11 | Tata Motors (PV) | 4,41,315 | 1.86% | +28.5% |
| 12 | Tata Motors | 3,29,883 | 1.39% | +26.6% |
| 13 | Toyota Kirloskar | 2,74,005 | 1.15% | +14.7% |
| 14 | Ather Energy | 2,61,899 | 1.10% | +80.1% |
| 15 | Kia India | 2,45,126 | 1.03% | +29.7% |
What India registered in CY 2026
Two-wheelers dominate every Indian registration total, and CY 2026 is no exception: two-wheelers alone accounted for 70.6% of the 2,37,71,564 vehicles registered across the period.
Taxis & Cabs grew fastest at +28.3%, and other classes slowest at −0.4%.
Market composition — CY 2026
Share of every vehicle registered in the period.
Exact segment volumes over January 2026 to September 2026.
| Segment | CY 2026 units | Share | vs CY 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two-Wheelers | 1,67,72,393 | 70.56% | +22.0% |
| Cars & UVs | 36,37,059 | 15.30% | +23.1% |
| Three-Wheelers | 11,13,230 | 4.68% | +16.0% |
| Tractors | 8,41,423 | 3.54% | +21.5% |
| Goods Carriers | 8,01,363 | 3.37% | +24.8% |
| Taxis & Cabs | 3,36,006 | 1.41% | +28.3% |
| Other classes | 1,66,454 | 0.70% | −0.4% |
| Buses | 1,03,636 | 0.44% | +1.4% |
Fuel mix, CY 2026
Battery-electric vehicles were 10.7% of every registration in CY 2026, against 8.6% in CY 2025. That is 25,36,996 electric vehicles across all segments.
Fuel labels come straight from Vahan and the split below covers the whole market over January 2026 to September 2026 — petrol includes the E20 ethanol blend, which is now the single largest label in the database.
Registrations by fuel — CY 2026
Every vehicle registered in the period, by fuel.
Exact fuel volumes over January 2026 to September 2026.
| Fuel | CY 2026 units | Share | vs CY 2025 | Share move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 1,69,67,860 | 71.38% | +18.2% | −2.14pp |
| Electric | 25,36,996 | 10.67% | +51.9% | +2.12pp |
| Diesel | 25,27,597 | 10.63% | +20.5% | −0.11pp |
| CNG / LPG | 13,40,123 | 5.64% | +23.4% | +0.07pp |
| Hybrid | 3,36,496 | 1.42% | +29.3% | +0.08pp |
| Other | 62,492 | 0.26% | +11.4% | −0.02pp |
Vehicle sales, year by year
Across the 2 completed windows in our Vahan record, vehicle registrations went from 2,72,37,413 in CY 2024 to 2,92,91,488 in CY 2025, up 7.5% over the stretch.
CY 2026 is still running — 9 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 calendar year
* window still in progress.
| Period | Months | Units | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| CY 2026 (to date) | 9 | 2,37,71,564 | +21.8% |
| CY 2025 | 12 | 2,92,91,488 | +7.5% |
| CY 2024 | 12 | 2,72,37,413 | +9.1% |
Each row compares only the months that window holds, so a part period is never set against a full one.
Where the demand was, CY 2026
Uttar Pradesh registered the most vehicles of any state in CY 2026 — 31,24,308, 13.1% of the national total.
The top five states together account for 46.9% of every vehicle registered in the period.
Top states by registrations — CY 2026
All vehicle types, exact for the period.
| # | State | Units | Share | vs CY 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | 31,24,308 | 13.1% | +15.8% |
| 2 | Maharashtra | 26,10,545 | 11.0% | +20.7% |
| 3 | Tamil Nadu | 20,60,460 | 8.7% | +36.1% |
| 4 | Gujarat | 16,78,012 | 7.1% | +24.0% |
| 5 | Karnataka | 16,76,184 | 7.1% | +24.8% |
| 6 | Rajasthan | 12,87,433 | 5.4% | +24.5% |
| 7 | Madhya Pradesh | 12,70,564 | 5.3% | +16.0% |
| 8 | Bihar | 11,62,440 | 4.9% | +22.5% |
| 9 | West Bengal | 10,38,422 | 4.4% | +20.8% |
| 10 | Haryana | 8,49,183 | 3.6% | +17.4% |
| 11 | Kerala | 8,45,482 | 3.6% | +34.0% |
| 12 | Telangana | 8,38,530 | 3.5% | +17.1% |
| 13 | Andhra Pradesh | 8,10,741 | 3.4% | +35.6% |
| 14 | Odisha | 7,45,909 | 3.1% | +21.5% |
| 15 | Punjab | 6,57,864 | 2.8% | +27.7% |
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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.
Using these numbers? Cite "Flash Finance (Vahan data)" with a link to this page. This report's chart card is free to republish with the same credit.
