Automakers dispatched 231,633 passenger vehicles to local dealerships the past month, compared with 88,045 vehicles in May and 105,617 units a year earlier, according to data released on Wednesday by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers ...
By ET Bureau | Updated:
Sales of passenger vehicles bounced back in June after a steep fall the previous month, as operations returned to near normal at factories and dealerships with the second wave of the pandemic flattening out and states easing restrictions.
Automakers dispatched 231,633 passenger vehicles to local dealerships the past month, compared with 88,045 vehicles in May and 105,617 units a year earlier, according to data released on Wednesday by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).
Including the numbers of Tata Motors, which doesn’t report monthly sales volume to SIAM but releases the data every quarter, sales in June totalled 255,743 units. These are dispatches from factories, or wholesale numbers, and not retail sales which the industry doesn’t report.
Sales were 261,633 units this April, before the Covid-19 second wave crippled the country and led several state governments to impose lockdowns. The central government ordered factories to divert industrial oxygen to hospitals with the country facing an acute shortage of medical oxygen. The situation started improving early last month and, by the end of the month, most states had allowed industries and businesses to resume operations.
In the two-wheeler segment, wholesale volume in June rose 4% from a year earlier to 1,055,777 units. Three-wheeler sales, though, fell 9% to 9,397 units.
