India Manual

New passenger-car (EU M1) registrations for India from the VAHAN dashboard.

2026-08

Latest period modelled

5.6%

TTM BEV share (Whole)

Variants

How it works

India's figures are exported by hand from the VAHAN dashboard (Ministry of Road Transport & Highways) — VAHAN resets foreign connections so there is no automated fetch (scripts/fetch_india.py is probe-only). The maintainer pulls one Fuel x Month Wise Excel per calendar year, filtered to the M1 passenger-car vehicle classes; scripts/build_india.py turns those raw files (data/raw/india/) into data/India.csv.

Whole was redefined from the old 'all vehicle categories combined' (and the non-standard 4-Wheelers/3-Wheelers/2-Wheelers split) to EU M1 passenger cars, so India's headline series is comparable with every other country's Whole. Historical values before this change are not directly comparable; the series was rebuilt from scratch under the new definition (2017 onward — 2020+ monthly, 2017-2019 as annual totals VAHAN only exposes yearly that far back).

Commercial variants (Vans = N1, HDV = N2/N3, Buses = M2/M3) and the India-specific 2-/3-Wheelers are planned re-pulls under the same recipe; their filter definitions are documented in data/raw/india/README.md.

Raw source

Go and check the numbers yourself:

VAHAN dashboard ↗

How the data flows

Origin

VAHAN — Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (national register)

Source / API

VAHAN dashboard

Gallery

BEV Trajectories gallery

Definitions & scope

Acquisition	Manual — entered by hand from the published source
Vehicle scope	Whole = EU M1 passenger cars: VAHAN Vehicle Class MOTOR CAR + MOTOR CAB + LUXURY CAB (private cars incl. SUVs, plus passenger-car taxis). Pulled as the Fuel x Month Wise table, all states/RTOs, calendar year. The running month is dropped and the last two completed months are provisional (VAHAN backfills daily). The exact, reproducible pull recipe lives in data/raw/india/README.md.
HEV (full hybrids)	All hybrids fold into HEV (STRONG HYBRID EV plus every */HYBRID label). VAHAN has no consistent MHEV label, so the strong/mild split is not distinguished — treat HEV as unverified on that axis. BEV = ELECTRIC(BOV) + PURE EV; PHEV = PLUG-IN HYBRID EV.

Variants

Each variant is its own series with its own CSV. Not every variant is charted in the gallery — the CSV is the authoritative record either way.

Variant	What it counts	Held	Raw data
Whole	EU M1 passenger cars (MOTOR CAR + MOTOR CAB + LUXURY CAB) from VAHAN, replacing the retired all-categories / 4-Wheelers definition.	not in this repo	rendered from the maintainer's local pipeline; the series was never committed here

Caveats

VAHAN onboarded states over time, so older totals rise as coverage ramps in; the series converges forward and is not back-corrected.
The most recent one or two months are provisional — VAHAN keeps entering late registrations for weeks, so those months are revised upward on the next re-pull; the incomplete running month is excluded entirely.
VAHAN registration timing and state coverage differ from the other national sources; absolute volumes are not directly comparable across countries (scope differs).
VAHAN4 is scheduled for retirement (dashboard banner: after 15 August 2026). When it goes, the pull moves to the New Public Dashboard and the fuel/class labels must be re-verified.