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The full fig of vehicles registered successful Tamil Nadu successful 2025 recorded an summation of astir 8.4% compared with the erstwhile year. As the adoption of electrical vehicles is gaining momentum among roadworthy users, registrations of electrical vehicles besides recorded a important summation past year.
A perusal of information disposable connected the Vahan dashboard of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) showed astir 21.18 lakh vehicles were registered past twelvemonth crossed 147 Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) and Unit Offices (UOs) dispersed implicit 38 districts successful the State.
Vehicle registrations were, arsenic usual, higher successful municipality areas. RTO/UO-wise information showed much than 50,000 vehicles were registered successful Tambaram and Poonamallee, portion much than 35,000 registrations were recorded successful Red Hills, Chennai (North), Sholinganallur and Coimbatore (North).
More than 40% of the full registrations were concentrated successful Chennai, Chengalpattu, Coimbatore, Tiruvallur, Madurai and Salem districts. At 11 RTOs/UOs, mostly successful agrarian areas, less than 5,000 vehicles were registered.
Of the full vehicles registered, adjacent to 16.4 lakh were two-wheelers, portion astir 4.2 lakh were light, mean and dense centrifugal vehicles of antithetic categories specified arsenic passenger, centrifugal and goods vehicles.
As acold arsenic substance benignant was concerned, petrol vehicles continued to predominate registrations, accounting for adjacent to 75% of the total, arsenic astir two-wheelers autumn nether this segment. Petrol conveyance registrations roseate to astir 17.46 lakh successful 2025 from 15.54 lakh successful 2024. Diesel conveyance registrations besides saw a marginal increase.
The registration of electrical vehicles recorded a important summation from 1.35 lakh successful 2024 to 1.74 lakh successful 2025, majorly driven by two-wheelers. The adoption of electrical vehicles by roadworthy users is apt to summation further, arsenic the State authorities had precocious extended the 100% roadworthy taxation exemption granted for electrical vehicles successful some transport and non-transport segments by 2 much years, until 2027.
The State authorities had released the Tamil Nadu Electric Vehicle Policy successful 2019 and granted roadworthy taxation exemption for 3 years, which was aboriginal extended.
