Nepal Vehicle Market Report Q3 2026

New launches in Q3 2026

We added 54 electric variants across 41 models and 11 petrol variants across 8 models to the catalogue between July and September. Most arrived in August, around the NAIMA Nepal Mobility Expo (11 to 16 August) and the NADA Auto Show (25 to 30 August). The table lists the 30 new variants that were on show at one of the two events, with their listed price on 30 September.

Price revisions

We compare each variant's listed ex-showroom price on 30 June with its price on 30 September. Electric prices went both ways: 28 variants rose and 14 were cut. Petrol and diesel prices almost only went up, with 71 rises against 2 cuts, mostly on Suzuki, Mahindra, Yamaha and Bajaj models.

The mid-July EV tax change

After Nepal moved electric vehicle tax from motor power to vehicle value in mid-July 2026, cheaper electric cars (under Rs. 40 lakh at the start of the quarter) were more often cut, and pricier ones more often raised. Cuts included the BAW Brumby (Rs. 22,99,000 to Rs. 19,99,000) and Dongfeng Nammi 01 E3 Single Tone 50kW (Rs. 36,25,000 to Rs. 32,99,000). Rises included the Maxus MIFA 7 (Rs. 1.25 crore to Rs. 2.45 crore), BYD Sealion 7 Premium RWD (Rs. 79,99,000 to Rs. 92,99,000) and BYD Atto 3 Superior (Rs. 67,80,000 to Rs. 78,00,000). Not every price followed the pattern: the Omoda E5 Dual Tone (Rs. 62,49,000 to Rs. 57,39,000) came down.

The catalogue shows the direction of these moves but cannot tie any single revision to the tax change, since distributors also changed trims, motors and launch pricing in the same months.

Cheapest models and price bands on 30 September

For current prices see the electric car, electric scooter, petrol car and bike price lists.

Most-researched models on EV News Nepal in Q3

The five models buyers researched most on EV News Nepal between July and September 2026, listed alphabetically:

• BYD Atto 1 (electric)
• KTM Duke 200 (petrol)
• Tata Punch EV (electric)
• TVS Apache RTR (petrol)
• Yamaha Ray ZR (petrol)

Methodology and limitations

The report covers 1 July to 30 September 2026 and the EV News Nepal catalogue of 297 electric and 723 petrol and diesel variants listed as sold in Nepal. Prices are ex-showroom in Nepal; 1 lakh is NPR 100,000 and 1 crore is NPR 10,000,000.

• Price revisions compare each variant's listed price on 30 June and 30 September, rebuilt from the price history we keep for every record. Moves under 0.5% are treated as rounding. The date is when our catalogue changed, which can trail the distributor's own announcement, and some revisions bring a stale listing up to date rather than reflect a new price set in the quarter. Limited-time show offers are kept apart from list prices where we know of them, so they do not count as revisions. One placeholder price replaced by the first official price is excluded.
• New launches are variants first added to our catalogue in the quarter, which is not always the distributor's launch date. Listing dates are incomplete for older petrol records, so the petrol count is a floor. Show tags come from our NAIMA and NADA 2026 show pages.
• Price bands and cheapest models use every listed variant with a published price on 30 September, excluding models not yet on sale.
• Most-researched models are ranked internally from our own site analytics, summed across each model's variant pages. Only the names are published.

Detailed demand data (model and brand level views and enquiries) is available to distributors and advertisers on request: contact@evnewsnepal.com.