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My car gets 8km/L real-world, so 800km is about 100L of gasoline. At $1.50/L for its required 91 octane gas, that's $150.

Electricity is $0.08/kwh for the low tier where I live (Vancouver, Canada), so $4.80 to charge the 60kwh battery from zero.

The Bolt has an EPA range of 380 km. So, I was figuring that it would require two (and a bit) charges to hit the same 800km number.

8km/L is 2.35 miles per gallon. That's hilariously abysmal. Are you driving the space shuttle crawler?

Chevy Tahoe is the epitome of enormous gas guzzling SUV and it gets 8x that, at 16mpg.

They probably confused l/100km with km/l. 8l/100km is quite a common fuel consumption figure (~30mpg).

I don't know how they didn't notice this though, because most people have a general idea of how often they fill their car and how much it costs.

Check your units. 8km/l is 19 mpg.