At 5%, EV share in car sales nearly doubles in year

NEW DELHI: The start may have been slow, but adoption of electrics has started to pick up in the country, with contribution of green cars to total sales nearly doubling over last one year, though on a lower base. Not only this, at 91,726 units, first six months of fiscal 2025-26 have seen sales of electrics cover nearly 86% of what was sold in the full year of FY25 (around 1.1 lakh units), showing the growth in adoption of EVs. With this, the share of electrics in total passenger vehicle (PV) sales has now moved to around the 5% mark against 2.6% recorded at the end of FY25. Sales of electrics grew by 108% to 91,726 units in first half of FY26 against 44,172 units in the same period of previous year, according to numbers provided by Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA).