CHAdeMO Association held the 41st CHAdeMO Infrastructure Workshop on Monday 3 March in Suidobashi, Tokyo. This was the 2nd such event in FY2024. The usual venue, Zensuido Kaikan, welcomed around 40 people in person and over 150 people participated online.

Programme
1. Greetings from the President
Takafumi Anegawa, President, CHAdeMO Association
2. 'Examination of EMC test for 150kW-class BEV charging'
Mr. Akira Mori, Electronic Performance Development Department, Toyota Motor Corporation
3. 'Development of distributed cooperative control for multi-parallel EVs for application to DC microgrids'
Mr. Kazuhiro Sugimoto, Powertrain Advanced Product Development Department, Toyota Motor Corporation
4. '2025 update on OCA and OCPP'
Ms. Lonneke Driessen, Mr. Milan Jansen, OCA(Elaad)
5. 'Development of next-generation super-quick (high-voltage) chargers at Takaoka Toko'
Mr. Motoki Maruyama, Deputy General Manager, GX Solution Division and General Manager, System Solution Development Department, Takaoka Toko Co., Ltd.
6. 'European EV charging travelogue: a beginner user goes charging'
Tomoko Blech, European Secretariat, CHAdeMO Association
7. 'Overseas chargers: A look and a walk'
Tomomi Hakomori, Secretariat, CHAdeMO Association

Toyota's presentation showed the breadth of research and development related to EVs and there were technical questions and answers.
OCA's presentation saw a number of questions, in reflection of  the high level of interest from the Japanese stakeholders in the OCPP.
Takaoka Toko's ultra-quick charger attracted a lot of attention, partly because a high-power charger is finally being introduced to Japan, which has been said to lack a super-quick charger like those seen in Europe.
After the programme, as usual, it was a friendly chat and networking session.