Covid-19 impact: TVS Motor domestic two-wheeler sales down 62% in March

Sales across categories were down 55.5% to 144,739 units in March 2020; company says lockdown forced large-scale loss of production

TVS Motor reported a 62 per cent drop in domestic two-wheelers to 94,103 units this March, from 247,694 units a year ago. Total two-wheeler sales, including exports, declined 56.9 per cent to 133,988 units in March 2020 from 310,885 units last year.  

Motorcycles sales at 66,673 units this year were less than half those, at 141,086 units, a year.  Scooter sales were down 65.3 per cent to 34,191 units from 98,477 units a year ago.

Sales across categories were down 55.5 per cent to 144,739 units in March 2020, from 325,323 units in March 2019.  

"There has been a huge impact on the