Electrolux ELFW7738
Filed with DOE as ELFW7738***. An asterisk in a model number stands for any character: this one filing covers several variants.
415 kWh a year DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) (the U.S. Department of Energy’s Compliance Certification Database) · 2026-10-25with an electric water heater and an electric dryer
IMEF 3.20 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it
A front-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 4.5 cubic feet.
Label numbers this filing covers (1)
The model number on your rating plate may be any of these; each is filed under this one listing.
- ELFW7738***
Checking the Electrolux ELFW7738***? This front-loading standard-size washer uses 415 kWh a year at DOE's test use with an electric water heater and an electric dryer. It uses 3,452 gallons of water a year. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 3.2, the 1st highest of 360 in its class.
Energy and water per year
415 kWh a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer
Computed by this site from the registry's IMEF and drum capacity at DOE's test use of 295 cycles a year. IMEF counts the washer, heating its water electrically, and the electric dryer's work on what the spin leaves wet — so this is the total for that kind of home. How it is calculated
The machine and its hot water alone, dryer not included: 74 kWh a year, as ENERGY STAR files it.
Not published: A home with a gas water heater, a gas dryer or line drying
DOE's rating assumes electric water heating and an electric dryer and files no split between the machine, the water heating and the drying.
Such a home uses less electricity than the total above; how much less, no registry says for this model.
3,452 gallons of water a year
Computed from the registry's IWF and drum capacity at the same 295 cycles a year.
Not published: What the water costs
water and sewer rates are set by thousands of local utilities and no free national source publishes them.
The gallons above are the figure to multiply by your own water and sewer rate.
This model is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class.
DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) · 2026-10-25What it costs to run where you live
See what the middle washer of each product class costs to run on your rate.
What the registry files
From DOE CCD · 2026-10-25
- IMEF (Integrated Modified Energy Factor) how many cubic feet of drum a washer cleans for each kilowatt-hour, counting the machine, heating the water and drying what the spin leaves wet
- 3.20 Compared only with other front-loading, standard size washers.
- IWF (Integrated Water Factor) how many gallons of water a washer uses per cycle for each cubic foot of drum
- 2.6
- Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
- 4.5 ft³
- Federal minimum IMEF for this class
- 1.84
From ENERGY STAR · 2026-10-25
- ENERGY STAR
- ENERGY STAR certified, and listed as Most Efficient.
Installed cost and service life
$1,155–$1,574 installed
Not a quote — a modeled range of what installers have charged for this class of unit; your price will vary with labor rates, access, and local code requirements.
Brought to current prices with Bureau of Labor Statistics indexes: equipment to August 2026, installation labor to April 2026–June 2026.
NLR REMDB (BLS PPI/ECI escalated) · 2026-04-01Service life: DOE’s cost database assumes 11 years for front-loading washers. That is a class assumption, not this model’s rating or a warranty — no registry publishes either.
NLR REMDB v4.0.0 · 2026-09-29Safety record
No CPSC recall names this model.
Checked against the CPSC recall database. CPSC does not publish a model-level match for this product category, so this list is curated by hand from the manufacturer's recall filings.
CPSC · 2026-09-29What these figures mean
Where the hot water in this figure comes from
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Water heaters
The other big user of hot water in a home, with every model on file.
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What a water heater costs to run
Prices a water heater’s efficiency against your own utility’s tariff.
Closest in its class
- LG Signature WM9901H…A 535 kWh a year
- LG Signature WM9998H…A 535 kWh a year
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How every figure on this page is calculated
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Front-load washers ranked by filed efficiency (IMEF)
Ranked by filed IMEF inside each class, recalled models left out.
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Most energy-efficient clothes washers
Ranked by filed IMEF inside each class, recalled models left out.
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Top load vs front load washing machine
The filed IMEF, yearly energy, water, drum size and installed-cost range of every standard-size top-loading and front-loading washer, side by side from the DOE registry.
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How much water and electricity does a washing machine use?
The yearly gallons and kWh of every residential washer on file, by product class with the full spread, plus the exact per-cycle figures, and the watts no registry files declared as a gap.
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Every clothes washer on file
All four product classes, from the DOE registry.
The 415 kWh figure assumes both an electric water heater and an electric dryer. This site computed it, not the registry. It uses the model's IMEF of 3.2 and its capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 4.5, at DOE's test number of cycles a year. The source is the DOE CCD, retrieved 2026-10-25. ENERGY STAR files a separate figure of 74 kWh a year for this model. That figure covers only the washer and its electrically heated water, with the dryer not included. The difference between 415 kWh and 74 kWh reflects the dryer's share under these two filings. A figure for a home with a gas water heater or a gas dryer is not available here. The method is set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.
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The 3,452 gallons a year comes from the model's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. The registry lists an IWF of 2.6 and a capacity of 4.5 cubic feet. This site applied both to the same test number of cycles a year. The figure holds at DOE's test use only. A household that runs more or fewer loads will use a different amount, and that amount is not available here. The page does not show a water cost for the 3,452 gallons. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any cost figure would be an estimate. A reader who has a local water and sewer bill can apply that rate to the yearly gallons.
The comparison class is the 360 models registered as front-loading, standard size. Their median IMEF is 2.76. This model's IMEF of 3.2 sits above that median and ranks 1st highest of 360. It is rated above the federal minimum IMEF for its class, where 37 of the 360 models sit. Under the DOE test, a higher IMEF means more cubic feet washed per kilowatt-hour. The running cost is not stated in this text because it depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff. The page computes it from the reader's ZIP instead. The installed price range appears in its own block, with its source and date. Other models in this class appear in the full list of clothes washer pages.