Vehicle Sales May 2025: Hero MotoCorp Leads, 23,16,166 Units Registered
Full Vahan registration report for May 2025 — every major manufacturer ranked, with month-on-month and year-on-year change, segment share, fuel mix and the state-wise picture.
How May went
The Indian vehicle market registered 23,16,166 vehicles in May 2025. Volumes grew 5.7% against May 2024, and edged down 3.4% on April.
Year to date, 1,13,55,514 units have been registered across 5 months, +2.1% on the same stretch of 2024 (1,11,21,253).
May is the pre-monsoon window — rural demand is still waiting on the first rains.
Monthly vehicle registrations, 2023–2026
One line per calendar year — the shape of the year, not just its total. The dashed end of the current year is the month so far.
Manufacturer scoreboard
Hero MotoCorp led the segment with 5,08,121 registrations, ahead of Honda 2W (HMSI) on 4,13,661 — a gap of 94,460 units, narrower than the 94,565 it held in April.
Royal Enfield grew fastest among the segment's biggest names at +21.1% year on year (81,682 units); Maruti Suzuki had the hardest month of that group, down 3.7% to 1,26,928.
On share rather than volume — the number that decides who is actually winning — TVS Motor has added 1.17pp of the segment in 2025, while Bajaj Auto has given up 0.74pp.
Top 10 manufacturers, May 2025
Registrations in the month
Ranked by registrations in the month, with month-on-month and year-on-year change. Click a name for its full dashboard.
| # | Manufacturer | May 2025 | MoM | YoY | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hero MotoCorp | 5,08,121 | −2.4% | +11.7% | 21.94% |
| 2 | Honda 2W (HMSI) | 4,13,661 | −2.9% | +0.0% | 17.86% |
| 3 | TVS Motor | 3,23,840 | −0.1% | +18.1% | 13.98% |
| 4 | Bajaj Auto | 2,31,328 | +1.9% | +4.0% | 9.99% |
| 5 | Maruti Suzuki | 1,26,928 | −14.7% | −3.7% | 5.48% |
| 6 | Suzuki 2W | 93,127 | −4.2% | +8.0% | 4.02% |
| 7 | Royal Enfield | 81,682 | −4.5% | +21.1% | 3.53% |
| 8 | Mahindra | 65,359 | −9.0% | +16.8% | 2.82% |
| 9 | Yamaha India | 52,047 | −3.7% | −7.7% | 2.25% |
| 10 | Hyundai | 40,984 | −12.7% | −13.5% | 1.77% |
| 11 | Tata Motors (PV) | 33,807 | −17.9% | −10.9% | 1.46% |
| 12 | Tata Motors | 28,087 | −14.3% | −10.9% | 1.21% |
| 13 | Toyota Kirloskar | 24,890 | −6.8% | +22.1% | 1.07% |
| 14 | Ola Electric | 18,969 | −6.1% | −52.1% | 0.82% |
| 15 | Kia India | 18,452 | −21.7% | −9.6% | 0.80% |
Share is of every vehicle registered in India that month.
Market share, year to date
Share here is of every vehicle registered in India, across all segments — which is why two-wheeler makers fill the top of the table. Volume is full-year 2025. The comparison is against the whole of 2024.
Exact segment volume per manufacturer over full-year 2025, and the change in share against full-year 2024.
| # | Manufacturer | 2025 units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hero MotoCorp | 59,27,643 | 20.24% | −0.31pp |
| 2 | Honda 2W (HMSI) | 52,79,986 | 18.03% | −0.55pp |
| 3 | TVS Motor | 39,79,878 | 13.59% | +1.17pp |
| 4 | Bajaj Auto | 27,54,393 | 9.40% | −0.74pp |
| 5 | Maruti Suzuki | 18,96,160 | 6.47% | +0.04pp |
| 6 | Suzuki 2W | 11,56,157 | 3.95% | +0.25pp |
| 7 | Royal Enfield | 10,76,953 | 3.68% | +0.55pp |
| 8 | Mahindra | 8,75,619 | 2.99% | +0.17pp |
| 9 | Yamaha India | 6,95,626 | 2.37% | −0.13pp |
| 10 | Hyundai | 5,80,589 | 1.98% | −0.16pp |
| 11 | Tata Motors (PV) | 5,11,800 | 1.75% | −0.06pp |
| 12 | Tata Motors | 3,63,128 | 1.24% | −0.11pp |
| 13 | Toyota Kirloskar | 3,36,835 | 1.15% | +0.14pp |
| 14 | Kia India | 2,72,408 | 0.93% | +0.01pp |
| 15 | Mahindra Tractors | 2,38,104 | 0.81% | +0.05pp |
Fuel mix
Petrol accounts for 75.0% of the segment's registrations in 2025. Electric is at 8.05%, a move of +0.61pp on 2024 on volume of 23,56,971 units.
Vehicle fuel mix, 2025
Share of segment registrations year to date
The full-year 2025 mix.
| Fuel | 2025 units | Share | vs full-year 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 2,19,54,022 | 74.95% | −1.08pp |
| Diesel | 29,86,399 | 10.20% | +0.09pp |
| Electric | 23,56,971 | 8.05% | +0.61pp |
| CNG / LPG | 15,43,947 | 5.27% | +0.44pp |
| Hybrid | 3,69,002 | 1.26% | −0.05pp |
| Other | 81,147 | 0.28% | 0.00pp |
Share is of this report's own scope over full-year 2025, compared with the whole of 2024.
Where the demand is
Uttar Pradesh was the largest market in May 2025 with 4,08,443 registrations, 17.6% of the segment's national total. Maharashtra (2,29,843) and Bihar (1,51,894) followed. Among the big markets Bihar grew fastest at +30.2%.
Registrations in the month, by state.
| # | State | Units | Share | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | 4,08,443 | 17.6% | +22.2% |
| 2 | Maharashtra | 2,29,843 | 9.9% | +2.1% |
| 3 | Bihar | 1,51,894 | 6.6% | +30.2% |
| 4 | Karnataka | 1,50,342 | 6.5% | −3.6% |
| 5 | Tamil Nadu | 1,46,513 | 6.3% | −5.5% |
| 6 | Madhya Pradesh | 1,36,380 | 5.9% | +9.3% |
| 7 | Gujarat | 1,34,081 | 5.8% | −1.9% |
| 8 | Rajasthan | 1,18,905 | 5.1% | −5.2% |
| 9 | West Bengal | 1,09,262 | 4.7% | +8.8% |
| 10 | Haryana | 80,194 | 3.5% | +13.9% |
| 11 | Telangana | 79,785 | 3.4% | −2.5% |
| 12 | Kerala | 69,794 | 3.0% | +11.1% |
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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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