Scooter sales soar to pre-pandemic levels

Rising demand, electrification push scooters past motorcycles in growth

- Ayaan Kartik

The wheel may come full circle for India's scooter industry as sales look set to finally cross their pre-pandemic volume, clocking growth rates more than three times faster than motorcycles in the current financial year.

Between April and February this year, scooter sales posted 16.6% growth to reach nearly 6.3 million units. Experts are of the view that sales are likely to cross the 6.7 million units mark of FY19 and even the record 6.72 million units of FY18, as per data from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).

Comparatively, FY25 motorcycle sales so far have lagged scooters, recording growth of just about 5% to reach 11.2 million units, amid a slowdown in its bread-and-butter economy segment. In FY19, motorcycle sales stood at 13.6 million.