New Zealand · costs in NZD
Vented · 6 kg
Artusi ACD60A Clothes Dryer
Artusi ACD60A is a 6 kg vented clothes dryer registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACD0658).
- Capacity
- 6 kg
- Vented
- Energy rating
- 2
- Annual electricity use
- 266 kWh
- Label: 266 kWh · 5.1 kWh per load
- Estimated running cost
- $88 / year
- $878 over 10 years
- Control
- Timer · Strong heat, Timer set to 200 programme
9% more electricity than the median of 32 comparable 6 kg and under vented dryer registrations (245 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 22% of them. At your rates that is about $7 a year more than the median, $69 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 6 kg and under vented dryer sold in New Zealand, 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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Artusi ACD60A specifications
- Type (government)
- Vented
- Rated capacity
- 6.0 kg
- Combination washer-dryer
- No
- Control
- timer
- Programme tested
- Strong heat, Timer set to 200
- Programme time
- 216 min
- Moisture removed in test
- 4.70 kg
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 600 × 700 × 545 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 266 kWh
- Star rating index
- 2.10
- Country of manufacture
- China
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACD0658
- GEMS registration id
- 148557
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 24 July 2027
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2442.1:1996/Amdt 4:2006
Source: E3 programme registration data (EECA, New Zealand) (trans-Tasman E3 registration data published by DCCEEW on data.gov.au, CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 20 September 2026; last checked 20 September 2026. How the derived figures are calculated.