Your leaf would have cost $120 to 130 thousand without government subsidies.
How so? List is about $35,000 with subsidies knocking about $12,500 off that. Accepting, without research, the article’s claims there’s an average of $44,444 in subsidies per domestic EV, making the worst case subsidized cost somewhere under $72,000. More likely the bulk of that federal $8B went, like Solyndra et al, to the Obama’s cronies via big-budget ventures which conveniently went under.
A few interesting but minor aerodynamic & weight improvements aside, the Leaf is little more than a standard commuter car with the gas tank replaced by a giant battery, and the engine replaced with a couple high-performance electric motors. That’s not $100,000 in differences, more like $10K max.