Electric car sales are surging in India. EVs now make up nearly 5% of total vehicle sales, a significant jump from last year.NEW DELHI: They may have been slow to start, but adoption of electrics has started to pick up in the country with the contribution of green cars to total sales nearly doubling over the past one year – albeit on a lower base.
Not only this, at 91,726 units, the first six months of fiscal 2025-26 have seen sales of electrics cover nearly 86 per cent of what was sold in the full year of FY25 (around 1.07 lakh units), indicating the growth in adoption of EVs by customers.
With this, the share of electrics in total PV sales has now moved to around the 5 per cent mark against the 2.6 per cent recorded at the end of FY25.
The first half of FY26 has seen the sales of electrics grow by 108 per cent to 91,726 units against 44,172 units in the same period of the previous year, according to numbers provided by Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA). This number was led by strong performance by JSW MG Motor, Tata Motors, and others such as BMW and Mahindra & Mahindra.
JSW MG’s Windsor SUV has seen one of the fastest scale-ups for an EV as the model crossed 50,000 units in just one year of its launch.
Anurag Mehrotra, MD of JSW MG Motor, said the share of EVs to the company’s sales is 80 per cent as it witnesses strong traction across segments. “EVs are expected to cross 7 per cent industry market share by this year-end. Together, EVs and hybrids are likely to hit 30 per cent share in a decade.”
Shailesh Chandra, MD & CEO of Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, said EVs have also played a strong part in the company’s healthy performance during the just-ended festive season. “Our EV portfolio continued its upward trajectory with over 10,000 units retailed in the 30-day window from Navratri to Diwali. This is up 37 per cent. In fact, the second quarter of this fiscal has seen our EVs grow by 59 per cent yoy on a total volume of 25,000 units. The share of EVs at the end of Q2 stands at 17 per cent to overall sales.”
The demand for green cars has been equally strong when it comes to luxury. BMW and Mercedes-Benz have seen strong adoption of electrics, prompting the brands to launch more green cars.
Hardeep S Brar, President & CEO of BMW India, said the group recorded the highest EV sales between Jan to Sept 2025. “A total of 2,509 electric BMWs and MINIs were delivered, with a growth of 246 per cent y-o-y. BMW iX1 long wheelbase is the highest-selling electric car, followed by the flagship i7. The share of EVs in total sales further increased to 21 per cent… By 2030, this is further expected to increase to 30 per cent,” Brar said.
Santosh Iyer, MD&CEO of Mercedes-Benz India, said EVs are a key element in the company’s decarbonisation roadmap. “Our top-end battery electrics drive our strategy with the locally-produced EQS SUV recording its highest sales ever, accelerating our EV penetration to 8 per cent of total volumes. The company has seen a 10 per cent growth in EV sales in the second quarter of this fiscal.”
With top mainstream players such as Maruti and Hyundai expected to launch locally-made EVs from next year, the industry expects the share of greens to go up exponentially.>
