General Motors (GM) India will showcase an electric car in 2011, local reports have said.

President and managing director Karl Slym was quoted across the Indian media saying that it would be a small, battery-operated car.

He added that in collaboration with China’s SAC (Shanghai Auto Car), GM will bring three “value-package” cars, to market.

Local GM executives told reporters yesterday that in last six months, GM India had achived growth of 79% compared to a general industry growth of 36%. GM’s share of the Indian market however is 4%, the reports said.