India's electric passenger-vehicle market is now compounding on a base big enough to matter. FADA's April 2026 retail data showed 23,506 EV PVs sold in the month, a 75% jump on April 2025 (Autoguideindia, April 2026 FADA). The whole PV market grew 24.6% to 378,312 units, so EV share is now meaningfully outpacing the overall market.
Tata Motors still leads
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd remains the runaway leader of the Indian EV PV table. The Nexon EV, Punch EV and Curvv EV between them account for the majority of Tata's monthly volume, with the Nexon EV the largest single model. Tata's EV share has held above 50% of the category for most of the last six quarters even as new entrants have crowded in.
The surprise: VinFast at 1,232 units in its first months
The April number that turned heads was VinFast Auto India Pvt Ltd at 1,232 units, just ahead of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd at 1,231 EVs. VinFast launched in India in late 2025 with the VF6 and VF7, and its early ramp has been faster than most analysts expected. The Vietnamese OEM is targeting the same crossover-EV slot that Tata's Curvv EV occupies, and the early dealer build-out is concentrated in the south and west.
For Maruti, the 1,231-unit April figure represents the first full month of its eVitara compact SUV at scale, and it puts the country's largest passenger-car brand back on the EV scoreboard after years of focusing on strong-hybrid Toyota-shared products instead of pure-battery (Autoguideindia).
The wholesale picture: 378,312 PVs in April
FADA reported total April 2026 PV wholesale at 378,312 units, a 24.6% year-on-year jump and consistent with full-year guidance from the major OEMs (MarkLines India). Maruti Suzuki continued to lead the overall PV table, with Hyundai, Tata and Mahindra in the chasing pack.
The Maruti hybrid pivot, contextualised
Maruti's strategic position remains: lead the strong-hybrid push (Grand Vitara, Invicto) for tier-2 and tier-3 markets where charging infrastructure is thin, while using the eVitara as a halo BEV to defend the brand against VinFast, Tata, MG and Mahindra in the premium urban segment. Whether the eVitara holds at 1,200+ units monthly through Q3 will tell us how much of that April number was launch-driven versus structural.
The challenger picture
Below Tata, the second tier of the Indian EV PV market includes MG Motor (Comet EV, Windsor EV), Mahindra (XUV400 EV, BE 6e), VinFast, Maruti, BYD (Atto 3), and Hyundai (Creta EV, Kona Electric). Total non-Tata EV PV sales were roughly 11,000-12,000 units in April, a fragmentation level that suggests at least one of the chasers will consolidate share through the second half of 2026.
Open the live India dashboard on AutoNergy for monthly EV PV retail, brand-by-brand splits, and the FADA + SIAM + Vahan triangulated data.