Steverino what happened to the "founders" of this VOLT FORUM, i have seen Threads from 2008- 2009 prior to the first Volts..I wonder what happened to the first Volt owners, did they sell their Volt , moved to Tesla ?...Would be nice to get them back just for the memories!!!.
The founder was Lyle Dennis, a doctor and EV enthusiast. He started the site in January 2007 when the Volt concept was announced. He sold the forum to VerticalScope a few years later, in February of 2011, about the same time he sold his Volt and got a Ford C-Max Energi plugin because his growing family needed something larger.
This and more can be found on the About page linked in the footer of the site's Home page:
http://gm-volt.com/about/
Some of the other moderators, DonC (class of 2008), WOT (class of 2008), and ScottF200 (class of 2010) where already here when Saghost joined in 2011. I starting following the forum in early 2010 and officially joined in 2011. There was another moderator, Rusty (class of 2008) who sadly passed away sometime in 2013.
Many of the early members bought Volts and still drive them (or a newer model). Some also have had or currently have EV's from Tesla, Nissan, Ford, etc. Some early members bought the Volt for it's novelty, drove it a few years and then moved on to the next novelty.
Some of the early members limit themselves to commenting on the main home page article of the day. I rarely see them post outside of that area.