Then General Motors CEO Dan Akerson (L) greets former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul (R) on Friday 22 June 2012, before the groundbreaking for the expansion of GM Auto, its wholly owned manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg, Russia. The expansion at the time was plan was to more than double GM Auto’s annual production capacity from the 98,000 vehicles to 230,000 vehicles by 2015.