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Top loader · 10 kg
Hisense HWT5I10B Washing Machine
Hisense HWT5I10B is a 10 kg top loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1801).
- Capacity
- 10 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 161 kWh
- Label: 283 kWh · 0.78 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $52 / year
- $516 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- – · ‘Cotton’,Water level 6, Soak 60 minutes, Temperature C+H programme
13% less electricity than the median of 35 comparable 10 kg top loader washing machine registrations (327 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 83% of them. At your rates that is about $8 a year less than the median, $80 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 10 kg top loader washing machine sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Hisense HWT5I10B specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 10.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- –
- Water efficiency index
- 0.633
- Programme tested
- ‘Cotton’,Water level 6, Soak 60 minutes, Temperature C+H
- Programme time
- 330 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 590 × 1,045 × 610 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 283 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.51
- Country of manufacture
- China
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1801
- GEMS registration id
- 179542
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 25 May 2031
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Family
- –
- 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.