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Front loader · 8 kg
Artusi AWM8000GB Washing Machine
Artusi AWM8000GB is a 8 kg front loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1844).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 136 kWh
- Label: 238 kWh · 0.65 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $43 / year
- $434 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- – · ECO Wash, 60°C, Speed 1400 programme
7% less electricity than the median of 98 comparable 8 kg front loader washing machine registrations (256 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 69% of them. At your rates that is about $3 a year less than the median, $32 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 8 kg front loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Artusi AWM8000GB specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- –
- Water efficiency index
- 0.590
- Programme tested
- ECO Wash, 60°C, Speed 1400
- Programme time
- 389 min
- Internal heater
- Yes
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 595 × 850 × 475 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 238 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.51
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1844
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1844
- GEMS registration id
- 182211
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 8 September 2031
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- AWM8000**
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2040.1:2021 +A1
Source: Australian Government Energy Rating (GEMS) registration data, DCCEEW via data.gov.au (CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 22 September 2026; last checked 23 September 2026. How the derived figures are calculated.