Every Tesla has lower car seat anchors in its two outer rear seats, and in the Model 3, Model Y and Model S the middle rear seat takes a belt-installed seat only. Three narrow seats fit a Model Y's rear bench on paper with about half an inch to spare, and the one hands-on Model Y report, from Australia, says three fit. This page sets out, model by model, which seats have anchors and tethers, what the owner's manuals forbid, the rear-seat widths against three narrow seats, and what the six-seat Model Y L and the three-row Model X offer a family with a third child.
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Starlink's home plans cost $55, $85 or $130 a month and its travel plans $55, $80 or $175, as of October 13, 2026. Here is which one fits you, what each data limit means, what a year costs, and what changed in 2026.
This guide's pick for most RV trips is a Starlink Mini on a Roam plan, and a home plan will not travel. Here is which dish fits which trip, what each plan costs, how many amp-hours the dish takes from a 12-volt battery, and where to mount it.
Starlink mesh nodes pair with the Gen 2 Router, Router 3, Router Mini and the Starlink Mini, not with the Gen 1 Router and not with any other brand's mesh system, and Starlink recommends no more than three of them. Here is which router does what, when to run a cable to the node, how bypass mode hands the network to your own router, which kits need the Ethernet Adapter, and why port forwarding takes a third-party router and, on IPv4, a public IP that only some plans can get.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026, at half or less of GPT-5.6's promotional per-token prices. In ChatGPT they are not yet in regular Chat, and Free and Go users get Luna only in the desktop app.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026. Anthropic says it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work, at $4 and $20 per million input and output tokens, 40% of Fable's rate. Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans get higher five-hour limits.
The creepy AI Cat in the Hat stalking driveways on TikTok has never been found in real life. The kids who post him with a school's name attached are being found fast. At least 15 minors in 10 states have been arrested or face charges in two weeks, several with felonies, under school-threat laws written after real shootings that do not care whether it was a joke.
New Model 3 and Model Y orders in the US and Canada no longer come with Autopilot. Adaptive cruise control is standard, lane-centering Autosteer is not, and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is $99 a month by subscription only.
Tesla's Mobile Connector is a $300 cable that plugs into an outlet; the Wall Connector is a $585 unit an electrician wires in, as priced by Tesla on October 11, 2026. On a 240-volt outlet the cable tops out at 32 amps, up to 30 miles of range an hour on a Model 3, and the wall unit reaches 48 amps and up to 44. For a Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive or Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive, Tesla says both charge at the same top rate, and its Wall Connector page adds the Model Y All-Wheel Drive. Also here: estimated hours for a daily top-up and for 10% to 80%, by model. Here are Tesla's speed tables for each outlet and breaker, its install estimates, what the extension-cord warning says, which cable works with Powershare, and what a red light on the Wall Connector means.
Tesla's Model 3 manual describes no spare wheel, so a flat leaves four options: Tesla Roadside Assistance, Tesla's $110 sealant-and-compressor kit, a tire shop, or a tow. Tesla says roadside help costs nothing while the car is under warranty, but its policy says you pay for the tire repair or replacement in all cases, and it covers a tow for the first 50 miles only when the car goes to a Tesla Service Center and Tesla does the tire work. Here is what to do in the first five minutes, what each option covers, whether the tire can be repaired, and what to tell a tow driver or tire shop.
Diesel averaged a record $6.529 a gallon on September 21, and Washington is arguing over whether to stop exporting it. An estimate built from EIA storage data gives the Gulf Coast room for about 24 days of stranded exports. After that, refiners must cut runs or reshuffle what they make.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate a quarter point on September 16 to a range of 3.75% to 4%, its first increase since 2023, in a unanimous vote under the chair Trump chose to bring rates down. Credit cards and home equity lines reprice within a billing cycle. The Fed did it with core CPI at its lowest since 2021, and its own forecast pencils in one more hike this year.
The EIA's weekly survey put US diesel at $5.967 a gallon for the week of September 7, above the June 2022 record of $5.810. Regular gasoline is $4.157 and nowhere near its own record. Diesel moves nearly everything you buy, so the gap between the two fuels is the number to watch.
Starlink sells its mounts by dish family. This guide matches each current dish (Standard 4, V5, Mini, Performance) to the right mount for a roof, wall, pole, ridge, vehicle or the ground, with Starlink's own prices and limits.
The Starlink Mini accessories worth buying, sorted by job: a car adapter, a 100-watt power bank, a tripod adapter, a vehicle mount and a case, plus what already comes in the box and what Starlink and reviewers say to avoid.
The four Tesla accessories worth buying for a Model 3 or Model Y, with Tesla's October 2026 prices and the version that fits your car, plus the add-ons Tesla's own manuals say to skip, starting with screen protectors.
