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Insignia MAV160-A2401PS/01FM-US

695 kWh a year DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) (the U.S. Department of Energy’s Compliance Certification Database) · 2026-10-25

with an electric water heater and an electric dryer

IMEF 1.57 filed efficiency; the yearly figure is computed from it

A top-loading washer of standard size (1.6 cubic feet or more). Drum: 3.7 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.

  • NS-TWM35W1

If you are checking the INSIGNIA MAV160-A2401PS/01FM-US, sold as NS-TWM35W1, this site computes 695 kWh a year at DOE's test use. That figure assumes an electric water heater and an electric dryer, and water use is 7,095 gallons a year. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 1.57, equal to its class median.


Energy and water per year

695 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

Not published: The washer's own share, without the dryer

DOE's database files IMEF, which folds the dryer in; only ENERGY STAR splits the machine out, and it lists this model under no matching rating.

The total above, and the IMEF it comes from, stand as filed.

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.

7,095 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 exactly at the federal minimum IMEF for its class, like many others; no rank is claimed inside that tie.

What you can do. Federal minimum means this model uses as much energy as the law allows for its class. 218 washers in the same class file a higher IMEF; at the same drum size and use, a higher IMEF is less energy a year. See the most efficient washers in each class

DOE CCD (opens in a new tab) · 2026-10-25

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What it costs to run where you live

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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
1.57 Compared only with other top-loading, standard size washers.
IWF (Integrated Water Factor) how many gallons of water a washer uses per cycle for each cubic foot of drum
6.5
Clothes container capacity the volume of the drum in cubic feet, as DOE's test measures it
3.7 ft³
Federal minimum IMEF for this class
1.57

Installed cost and service life

Not published: Installed cost range

NLR REMDB's cost model needs the washer's own yearly energy use, which only ENERGY STAR files — and it lists no matching rating for this model.

Ask retailers or installers for a written quote that names this model number. The yearly energy, water and running cost on this page do not depend on it.

Service life: DOE’s cost database assumes 11 years for top-loading washers. That is a class assumption, not this model’s rating or a warranty — no registry publishes either.

NLR REMDB v4.0.0 · 2026-09-29

Safety 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 · 2026-09-29

What these figures mean

The 695 kWh figure comes from two registry values: an IMEF of 1.57 and a capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 3.7. This site applies DOE's test use to those values, because the registry does not publish a yearly total itself. IMEF folds in the energy needed to dry the load. The figure therefore covers the washer, the electric water heater and the electric dryer together. The washer's own share is not available. Only ENERGY STAR splits the machine out, and it lists this model under no matching rating. For the same reason, the page shows no installed price range. The calculation of the yearly energy and water figures sets out each step. The DOE data was retrieved on 2026-10-25.

Read the rest

The 7,095 gallons figure comes from IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum. This model's IWF is 6.5, and this site applies it to the 3.7 cubic feet at DOE's test use. Like the energy figure, the site computes it, and the registry does not file it. It describes the test pattern, not the laundry volume of any single household. The page gives no cost for that water. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so any cost figure would be an estimate. A reader who knows the local water and sewer rate can apply it to the 7,095 gallons figure.

The class has 870 models registered as top-loading, standard size, and their median IMEF is 1.57. This model's IMEF of 1.57 matches that median and sits exactly at the federal minimum for the class. There are 652 models in the class rated at that minimum. The page therefore claims no rank for this model within that tie. The text gives no running cost. It depends on the reader's own utility electricity tariff, so the page computes it from the reader's ZIP. Other models in the same class are listed among all clothes washer pages.

DOE CCD · 2026-10-25

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