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Front loader · 8.5 kg
Kogan KATFWASH85B Washing Machine
Kogan KATFWASH85B is a 8.5 kg front loader washing machine registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration ACW1299).
- Capacity
- 8.5 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 147 kWh
- Label: 258 kWh · 0.71 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $47 / year
- $47 electricity + $0 water · $470 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · Cotton, 40℃,1200rpm programme
1% more 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 47% of them. At your rates that is about $0 a year more than the median, $5 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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Kogan KATFWASH85B specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.5 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.532
- Programme tested
- Cotton, 40℃,1200rpm
- Programme time
- 301 min
- Internal heater
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 600 × 850 × 630 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 258 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.60
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1299
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1299
- GEMS registration id
- 152514
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 21 February 2028
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- KATFWASH85*
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2040.1:2005/Amdt 3:2010
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.