Registrations in Tamil Nadu

About these figures

• Source. VAHAN Public Report, Parivahan Analytics, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India (analytics.parivahan.gov.in). Downloaded by us; the latest download is dated 1 November 2026.
• Registrations, not sales. A vehicle is counted when it is registered with a Regional Transport Office. This is not the number sold by dealers, and a vehicle sold in one month may be registered in the next.
• Complete months only, from January 2025. A month is published only after it has ended. The latest month shown is October 2026. A year is the sum of its months.
• Only official figures. Every number is as published by VAHAN. The only things we calculate are the change against the month before and against a year earlier, in percent: (this period − earlier period) ÷ earlier period. We do not calculate shares or per-person figures.
• VAHAN revises recent months. A month can change by one or two vehicles when we download it again. Two reports for the same month can therefore differ by that much. When a published figure changes, the change is logged.
• Bus column left out of group splits. In VAHAN’s reports that split vehicles by category group together with makers, offices or states, the “Bus” column counts some vehicles a second time (they are also in another group). We leave that column out. With it removed, each split is within 0.01 percent of the month’s total. The files we downloaded are kept unchanged.
• Checks. Before publishing we check that every split adds up to the same monthly total (to within two vehicles, because of the revisions), that each maker has the same total in its fuel, vehicle-type and office reports, that the Tamil Nadu row of the all-states reports agrees, and that every name is in our list of values.
• Vehicle category. VAHAN counts some vehicles in both a general and an “invalid carriage” class; see the note on each class in the lists file. “Vehicle type” has only two values on VAHAN: private and commercial.
• Category group “Others”. Appears in VAHAN’s monthly report but is not offered as a choice on its site; it is kept so that the groups add up to the total. In the reports that split makers, offices or states by group, these vehicles are inside “Four Wheeler”.

Figures published here on 2026-11-01 (version 3).