Australia · costs in AUD
Vented · 6 kg
Yokohama YDV6W Clothes Dryer
Yokohama YDV6W is a 6 kg vented clothes dryer registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACD1008).
- Capacity
- 6 kg
- Vented
- Energy rating
- 2
- Annual electricity use
- 269 kWh
- Label: 269 kWh · 5.2 kWh per load
- Estimated running cost
- $86 / year
- $861 over 10 years
- Control
- Timer · High Heat, timer set to 200 programme
9% more electricity than the median of 38 comparable 6 kg and under vented dryer registrations (246 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 11% of them. At your rates that is about $7 a year more than the median, $74 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 6 kg and under vented dryer sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
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Yokohama YDV6W specifications
- Type (government)
- Vented
- Rated capacity
- 6.0 kg
- Combination washer-dryer
- No
- Control
- timer
- Programme tested
- High Heat, timer set to 200
- Programme time
- 168 min
- Moisture removed in test
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 269 kWh
- Star rating index
- 2.03
- Country of manufacture
- China
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACD1008
- GEMS registration id
- 181593
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 27 August 2031
- Registered for sale in
- Australia
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 + A1 + A2
Source: Australian Government Energy Rating (GEMS) registration data, DCCEEW via data.gov.au (CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 20 September 2026; last checked 20 September 2026. How the derived figures are calculated.