Where the main roads of Sabah and Sarawak are far from a fast charger

Name: A GeoAnalitik study of Sabah’s, Sarawak’s and Labuan’s main roads and fast chargers
Uploaded: 2026-10-01
Duration: 30 s
Description: Measure the drive from every point on 5,008 km of main road in Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan to the nearest of 36 public fast-charging sites, and find the 44% more than 75 km from one.

We found 36 public fast (DC) charging sites in Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan in six charger maps and registers, and measured the drive from every point on their 5,008 km of expressways, main federal and state roads and roads to resorts, jetties and parks to the nearest one.

An example study built from public data only: charger maps, the government charger register, OpenStreetMap roads and DOSM household income. The data is correct as of the study date, 30 September 2026; the study is not refreshed after it.

The study in 30 seconds: Sukau, the roads by their drive to a fast charger, the three states, the Pan Borneo Highway across Sarawak and the Tip of Borneo.

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More than four in ten kilometres of Sabah’s and Sarawak’s main roads are more than 75 km from a fast charger: 2,228 km, of which 1,534 km are in Sabah.

Map of Sabah’s, Sarawak’s and Labuan’s main roads coloured by the drive to the nearest fast charger: the road from Ranau to Sandakan and Lahad Datu, and Sabah’s interior, are the farthest

Lime within 25 km of a fast charger, then yellow, orange, red and purple to 150 km; black beyond it, dashed where none can be reached.

Sabah has nine fast-charging sites; Sarawak has 27. In Sabah, 63% of main road is more than 75 km from a fast charger; in Sarawak, 26%. Labuan has none.
Sabah has no listed fast (DC) charger from Ranau to Sandakan and Lahad Datu. Seven of Sabah’s nine fast-charging sites are in and around Kota Kinabalu; the other two are at Kundasang and Tawau. From the one at Kundasang to Sandakan, and on to Lahad Datu, a driver is up to 239 km by road from the nearest one, the farthest of any federal road in the report.
Sarawak’s Pan Borneo Highway, FT1, has two gaps of about 200 km: Sibu to Bintulu, and Bintulu to Miri. Limbang and Lawas, reached from Miri through Brunei, are more than 200 km from a fast charger.
Sukau on the Kinabatangan is 264 km by road from the nearest fast charger, the Sepilok orangutan centre 219 km and the Tip of Borneo 175 km.

The case study as a PDF. The findings, the maps and the method on A4 pages, to print or forward.

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What a study for you adds

Charge-point operators: the sites that would close the most far kilometres, weighted by the traffic on each gap.
Fuel and highway operators: which of your stations and R&R stops sit inside a gap, and how far each is from a fast charger today.
Government and planners: where public money closes a gap, and which areas the network leaves out, by household income.
Car makers and dealers: which routes a buyer can drive today, and where a car’s range matters most.

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Limits: a road far from a listed fast charger may have one that no map lists. Any DC charger counts as fast, whatever its power. Whether a charger works, or takes your car, is not known.

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