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Front loader · 8 kg
Bosch WAN28288AU Washing Machine
Bosch WAN28288AU is a 8 kg front loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1618).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4.5
- Annual electricity use
- 134 kWh
- Label: 235 kWh · 0.64 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $44 / year
- $44 electricity + $0 water · $442 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · Eco, 1400 rpm programme
5% less electricity than the median of 102 comparable 8 kg front loader washing machine registrations (249 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 72% of them. At your rates that is about $3 a year less than the median, $25 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 8 kg front loader washing machine sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Bosch WAN28288AU specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.550
- Programme tested
- Eco, 1400 rpm
- Programme time
- 332 min
- Internal heater
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- –
- Annual energy (label)
- 235 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.62
- Country of manufacture
- Türkiye
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1618
- GEMS registration id
- 172219
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 23 September 2030
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2024
- Test standard
- AS/NZS 2040.1:2005/Amdt 3:2010
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 22 September 2026; last checked 23 September 2026. How the derived figures are calculated.