New Zealand · costs in NZD
Top loader · 7 kg
Midea MT512W70RUT Washing Machine
Midea MT512W70RUT is a 7 kg top loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1619).
- Capacity
- 7 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 3
- Annual electricity use
- 230 kWh
- Label: 404 kWh · 1.1 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $76 / year
- $76 electricity + $0 water · $760 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · "Normal" + "Medium" + "Warm" + "Rinse+ "3"" + "Spin+9"" programme
10% less electricity than the median of 38 comparable 7 kg top loader washing machine registrations (450 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 63% of them. At your rates that is about $9 a year less than the median, $87 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 7 kg top loader washing machine sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Midea MT512W70RUT specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 7.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.651
- Programme tested
- "Normal" + "Medium" + "Warm" + "Rinse+ "3"" + "Spin+9""
- Programme time
- 359 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 580 × 1,015 × 596 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 404 kWh
- Star rating index
- 3.00
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1619
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1619
- GEMS registration id
- 173222
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 23 September 2030
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- MT512W70RU series
- 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.