Car Loan EMI Calculator

Below Car loan EMI Calculator helps you to calculate every month EMI you need to pay on your car loan while buying a car.

Just provide your loan amount, interest rate and tenure in months to know the car loan EMI. This can help you to plan other financial goals accordingly. Also, you can download the Car Loan Excel calculator to know more details about every month EMI you pay.

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Table of Contents

Car Loan EMI Calculation – Video
THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT CAR LOAN EMI
How is Car Loan EMI Calculated Monthly?
- How to Save Car Loan Interest?
- Car Loan Prepayment in Excel – Video
What is Car Loan Repayment Table?
Benefits of using online Car Loan EMI Calculator
What is the EMI for 10 Lakh Car?
Is 7% good for Car Loan?
What is Car Loan Prepayment to Save Loan Interest
How much car loan can I get on 40000 salary?
At what salary person should buy car?
Conclusion

Watch below video to understand Car Loan EMI calculation in excel:

Car Loan EMI Calculation – Video

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THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT CAR LOAN EMI

There are 2 parts of your EMI: Principal amount & Interest Amount
Interest Amount is high initially during your Car Loan tenure
Principal amount is less initially during your Car Loan tenure
High interest amount is already taken at the initial Car loan period from your EMIs
You should pre pay most of your principal amount if you want to decrease maximum interest amount in your Car Loan
You can easily calculate your Car loan EMI using excel calculator as we can see in above video
Pre pay your Car loan principal amount initially as much as you can to decrease interest amount that you have to pay throughout your loan tenure
Increase in car loan tenure will increase the interest amount you’ll pay throughout your car loan tenure

How is Car Loan EMI Calculated Monthly?

It is very easy to calculate EMI of car loan using above calculator. Here are the steps to calculate car loan EMI:

Provide Loan Amount you will be taking from bank or financial institution
Enter yearly interest rate of car loan
Enter tenure in months
That’s it. These 3 numbers will give you the appropriate EMI for your car loan

Below is the screenshot of the calculation considering, Rs. 5 Lakh car loan amount, 9% interest rate and 36 months tenure:

As seen above, Rs. 15,900 is the car loan EMI amount (every month installment), Rs. 72,395 is the total interest you’ll pay throughout the loan tenure and Rs. 5,72,395 is the total amount you will be paying back.

It is important to note that your EMI amount consists of 2 components: Principal Amount and Interest Amount.

Principal Amount is low initially and increases with time as you pay your car loan EMI.

Interest Amount is high initially and decreases with time as you pay your car loan EMI.

This shows that maximum possible amount of interest from your car loan is taken from you during the initial stages (or months) of your car loan EMI repayment.

You can use below methods to save car loan interest:

How to Save Car Loan Interest?

Below are some ways to save car loan interest:

Check for low interest rate car loan
Keep the tenure low. Higher the tenure, longer you will keep paying EMI thus increasing the overall interest amount. So keep tenure low
Make Car Loan Prepayments whenever possible. Prepayment is a method to pay additional amount to reduce your principal outstanding balance on your loan.
Keep the loan amount as low as possible by doing maximum down payment for your car.
Check interest rates in banks and compare with showrooms

Watch below video on How Car Loan Prepayment can help you save interest with help of examples in excel:

Car Loan Prepayment in Excel – Video

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You may also like Home Loan Prepayment method if you have Home Loan EMI as well.

What is Car Loan Repayment Table?

So far we have understood how to calculate car loan EMI using calculator. Let us now go one step further and see how car loan EMI will be divided in 2 components using car loan repayment table.

This car loan repayment table is the table that shows you every month EMI amount (that is kept unchanged) and details of principal and interest amounts from this EMI, which changes every month.

We will take same example as above.

Car Loan Amount = Rs. 5,00,000
Interest Rate = 9% per annum
Tenure = 36 Months

Below is the car loan repayment table:

Months	EMI	Principal Amount	Interest Amount
Month 1	₹ 15,900	₹ 12,150	₹ 3,750
Month 2	₹ 15,900	₹ 12,241	₹ 3,659
Month 3	₹ 15,900	₹ 12,333	₹ 3,567
Month 4	₹ 15,900	₹ 12,425	₹ 3,475
Month 5	₹ 15,900	₹ 12,518	₹ 3,381
Month 6	₹ 15,900	₹ 12,987	₹ 2,912
Month 7	₹ 15,900	₹ 13,085	₹ 2,815
Month 8	₹ 15,900	₹ 13,183	₹ 2,717
Month 9	₹ 15,900	₹ 13,282	₹ 2,618
Month 10	₹ 15,900	₹ 13,381	₹ 2,518

Car Loan Repayment Table

As seen in above car loan repayment table (only first 10 months displayed), EMI of Rs. 15,900 in first month is divided into 2 parts – Rs. 12,150 (Principal Amount) and Rs. 3,750 (Interest Amount).

Further, as you will notice, the principal amount increases in 2nd month, but the interest amount decreases in same 2nd month. This continues till the end of loan tenure.

You can check calculations for entire car loan tenure by using this Car Loan Excel calculator.

Benefits of using online Car Loan EMI Calculator

There are multiple benefits of using car loan calculator:

You will know correct car loan EMI. No showroom can provide you incorrect quotes and misguide you
This calculator gives you the idea of EMI to check if you can afford
You can also adjust the tenure in months and get the EMI in affordable range
It gives you the EMI amount for various interest rates that you can compare between banks such as SBI, ICICI, Axis, HDFC, etc.

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What is the EMI for 10 Lakh Car?

Considering that entire 10 Lakh will be taken as loan and Using the calculator and below numbers for your car loan:

Car Loan Amount = Rs. 10 Lakh
Interest rate = 9%
Tenure = 5 Years

We get the car loan EMI as Rs. 20,758

Below is the screenshot of calculation:

If you can make down payment of Rs. 2 Lakh and take loan of 8 Lakh, below is the calculation:

Car Loan Amount = Rs. 8 Lakh
Interest rate = 9%
Tenure = 5 Years

We get the car loan EMI as Rs. 16,607

Below is the screenshot of calculation:

So as seen above, with reduction of loan amount, EMI is also decreased. That’s the reason we should take loan for amount that is required. Not less not more.

Is 7% good for Car Loan?

7% interest rate is really good for car loan. Currently the home loan interest rates starts from 7.5% (as of writing this article).

Car loan interest rates will be always higher than home loans. So anything below 10% should be good interest rate for car loan, provided you try to minimize the loan amount and keep tenure low.

What is Car Loan Prepayment to Save Loan Interest

Car Loan Prepayment is the method to save car loan interest.

Prepayment is a method to pay additional amount and reduce your outstanding principal amount. Your remaining principal amount is the important factor in car loan, as it calculates the monthly interest amount as part of your EMI.

So you should try to reduce this remaining principal balance to save car loan interest amounts.

For example, in above example of car loan, you pay total of Rs. 72,395 as the interest amount in 36 months. But just be paying additional Rs. 50,000 in 5th month, you can save Rs. 12,804 of loan interest amount.

Updated Interest amount will be Rs. 59,591.

Below is the screenshot of calculations:

Car Loan Prepayment to save loan interest example

Watch this video to know more about car loan prepayment in excel with examples.

How much car loan can I get on 40000 salary?

On your salary of Rs. 40000, you should try to keep the loan EMI affordable for you every month. The ideal number is to have no more than 20% of your monthly income as car loan EMI.

So you should try to get your car loan EMI within Rs. 10,000, and for 5 years tenure, you should be able to get maximum of Rs. 5 Lakh car loan on your salary of Rs. 40,000.

We have considered 9% interest rate and 60 months tenure. If interest rate increases or tenure decreases, than the loan amount you are eligible for might also decrease.

At what salary person should buy car?

It doesn’t matter at what age you are (provided you have car license to drive). What you should focus on is the car loan EMI.

Do not have more than 50% of your income going in your car loan EMI or any other EMI
Try to take minimum loan amount so that you can close loan early
Remember that car is a liability, so allocate funds accordingly if you are planning to buy one
If you really need a car and can afford at least Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 15,000 of EMI to be paid for next 5 years, you can buy a car within Rs. 8 Lakh of car amount.
Regarding age – you can be 18 years old or 55 years old and can follow above points, there is no such specific criteria or age to be checked to buy a car

Conclusion

While you are excited to buy your new car or already bought one on loan, it is important to calculate correct car loan EMI.

By using above car loan EMI calculator, you can check the EMI, total interest amount and total amount you’ll be paying in your loan tenure.

While doing so, also remember to make car loan prepayments in order to save loan interest which you can use to invest in mutual funds or any fixed income assets like Fixed Deposits, Recurring Deposits, etc.

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