New Zealand · costs in NZD
Front loader · 8 kg
Smeg SAWM814S Washing Machine
Smeg SAWM814S is a 8 kg front loader washing machine registered for sale in New Zealand under the trans-Tasman E3 energy rating scheme (registration ACW1418).
- Capacity
- 8 kg
- Front loader
- Energy rating
- 4
- Annual electricity use
- 185 kWh
- Label: 325 kWh · 0.89 kWh per wash
- Estimated running cost
- $61 / year
- $61 electricity + $0 water · $611 over 10 years
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L · Cottons Eco, 40°C 1400rpm programme
31% more 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 11% of them. At your rates that is about $14 a year more than the median, $144 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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Smeg SAWM814S specifications
- Loading
- Front loader
- Rated capacity
- 8.0 kg
- Combined washer-dryer
- No
- Wash action
- –
- Water per wash
- 0.0 L
- Water efficiency index
- 0.506
- Programme tested
- Cottons Eco, 40°C 1400rpm
- Programme time
- 279 min
- Internal heater
- –
- Dimensions (W×H×D)
- 550 × 845 × 600 mm
- Annual energy (label)
- 325 kWh
- Star rating index
- 4.03
- Country of manufacture
- Türkiye
New Zealand E3 registration details
- Registration number
- ACW1418
- GEMS registration id
- 159493
- Status
- approved, available (self-reported)
- Registration expires
- 1 April 2029
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, 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.