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Front loader · 6 kg
Chiq WFL60SB1 Washing Machine
Chiq WFL60SB1 is a 6 kg front loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1847).
- Capacity
- 6 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4
- Annual electricity use
- 126 kWh
- Label: 221 kWh · 0.61 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $40 / year
- $403 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- – · Cotton, 40℃, 1200rpm programme
14% less electricity than the median of 32 comparable under 7 kg front loader washing machine registrations (259 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 69% of them. At your rates that is about $7 a year less than the median, $68 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered under 7 kg front loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Chiq WFL60SB1 specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 6.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- –
- Water efficiency index
- 0.609
- Programme tested
- Cotton, 40℃, 1200rpm
- Programme time
- 405 min
- Internal heater
- Yes
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 600 × 847 × 478 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 221 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.05
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1847
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1847
- GEMS registration id
- 181807
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 10 September 2031
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- WFL**S*1
- 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.