New Zealand · costs in NZD
Top loader · 9 kg
Midea MT512W90RUT Washing Machine
Midea MT512W90RUT is a 9 kg top loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1621).
- Capacity
- 9 kg
- Top loader
- Energy rating
- 3
- Annual electricity use
- 303 kWh
- Label: 531 kWh · 1.5 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $100 / year
- $100 electricity + $0 water · $999 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · "Normal" + "Extra High" + "Warm" + "Rinse+ "3"" + "Spin+9"" programme
55% more electricity than the median of 25 comparable 9 kg top loader washing machine registrations (342 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 16% of them. At your rates that is about $36 a year more than the median, $355 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 9 kg top loader washing machine sold in New Zealand, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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Midea MT512W90RUT specifications
- Loading
- Top loader
- Rated capacity
- 9.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- impeller
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.607
- Programme tested
- "Normal" + "Extra High" + "Warm" + "Rinse+ "3"" + "Spin+9""
- Programme time
- 363 min
- Internal heater
- No
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 580 × 1,015 × 596 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 531 kWh
- Star rating index
- 3.01
- Country of manufacture
- China
Other model numbers on registration ACW1621
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1621
- GEMS registration id
- 173248
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 23 September 2030
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- MT512W90RU 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.