The benefit for Tesla is simple and twofold: 1. If CCS took off as the standard (which it was extremely going to), then Tesla having an awkward proprietary cha

The benefit for Tesla is simple and twofold: 1. If CCS took off as the standard (which it was extremely going to), then Tesla having an awkward proprietary charging port makes using a Tesla annoying, and they'd eventually have to transition over to CCS for their cars. It's like Apple having to switch from Lightning to USB-C -- an annoying transition that angers your early customers and makes them feel abandoned. 2. They have a giant network of NACS chargers. To receive federal subsidies, they have been planning to convert those to CCS. The argument they're going to make now -- helped by headlines like this inaccurate one -- is that NACS is the "real" standard, and the government should change the rules so that they subsidize NACS chargers. Then they can continue to make NACS-only chargers that don't support CCS, while taking taxpayer dollars to do so. (The government as of right now still holds the position that CCS is the official standard, and any charger receiving subsidy money needs to support CCS, but will that position hold up with GM and Ford joining Tesla in lobbying for NACS?)