New Zealand · costs in NZD
Condenser · 8 kg
Bosch WQG235DRAU Clothes Dryer
Bosch WQG235DRAU is a 8 kg condenser clothes dryer registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACD0682).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Condenser
- Energy rating
- 9
- Annual electricity use
- 115 kWh
- Label: 115 kWh · 2.2 kWh per load
- Estimated running cost
- $38 / year
- $380 over 10 years
- Control
- Auto-sensing · Cottons, Cupboard Dry Plus programme
17% less electricity than the median of 128 comparable 8 kg condenser dryer registrations (139 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 79% of them. At your rates that is about $8 a year less than the median, $79 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 8 kg condenser 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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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
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Bosch WQG235DRAU specifications
- Type (government)
- Condenser
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combination washer-dryer
- No
- Control
- autosensing
- Programme tested
- Cottons, Cupboard Dry Plus
- Programme time
- 256 min
- Moisture removed in test
- 6.35 kg
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 115 kWh
- Star rating index
- 9.03
- Country of manufacture
- Poland
Other model numbers on registration ACD0682
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACD0682
- GEMS registration id
- 152921
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 5 March 2028
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- T27
- 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.