r/abetterrouteplanner

I use ABRP when do road trips, and I have a Bluetooth dongle for each of my two cars. I’m planning a road trip next month but will be using a rental car for that. I’m considering renting a BEV instead of a gas or hybrid car. This would be in an area I don’t know well - at least I’ve not driven there since I’ve been driving electric. I’m wondering if/how I could use ABRP with a rental. Should I go to the trouble of bringing my Bluetooth dongle and plugging it into the rental? Or should I just add the rental car to my ABRP account and hope that it knows enough about the car based on make, model and year to make decent estimates?

With the decision made to replace my Cupra Born with an A290 GTS+, I now have some other questions.

I have been using ABRP to plan my trips on the Born, and have provided the live data from the car to ABRP via the Tronity app, which doesn’t include Alpine or Renault on it’s list of vehicles it can get live data from.

Is there a way to provide live data from the A290 to ABRP without using an OBD dongle?

Planning a route and ABRP wants the first leg to be 2h 50min. Frankly that's pushing my limits, and my children are simply not going to sit in the car for almost three hours.

Us there any way of setting a maximum leg time?

How do I close ABRP in CarPlay so I can connect the OBD dongle to other software? Even after force closing the app on my phone it persists in CarPlay.