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Maytag V17pBs510(3B)

883 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: 4.7 cubic feet.

Label numbers this filing covers (2)

The model number on your rating plate may be any of these; each is filed under this one listing.

  • MVWB765F**
  • MVWB766F**

Checking the Maytag V17pBs510(3B)? At DOE's test use, this top-loading washer uses 883 kWh a year with an electric water heater and an electric dryer, and 9,012 gallons of water a year. Its IMEF, the cubic feet of laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, dryer included, is 1.57, exactly the federal minimum for its class.


Energy and water per year

883 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.

9,012 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 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
4.7 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 883 kWh yearly figure is calculated by this site, not taken from the registry. It combines the registry's IMEF of 1.57 with the model's capacity, the drum's volume in cubic feet, of 4.7, at DOE's test use. Because IMEF folds in the dryer, the total covers the energy to dry each load as well as to wash it. A machine-only figure is not published for this model. DOE's database files only IMEF, and ENERGY STAR, the one source that splits the machine out, lists no matching rating for the V17pBs510(3B). For the same reason, no installed price range is shown, because the cost database needs that machine-only figure. The inputs come from the DOE CCD, retrieved 2026-10-25. The steps are set out in how the yearly energy and water figures are calculated.

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The 9,012 gallons yearly water figure is also this site's calculation. It applies the registry's IWF, the gallons of water used per cycle for each cubic foot of drum, of 6.5 to the 4.7 cubic-foot drum at DOE's test use. A household that runs more or fewer loads than the test assumes will use a different amount. The cost of that water is not stated on this page. No free national source publishes local water and sewer rates, so no cost is estimated. The electricity running cost is also absent from this text. It depends on the reader's own utility tariff, so the page computes it from the reader's ZIP rather than naming an amount.

The class used for comparison is the 870 models registered as top-loading, standard size. Their median IMEF is 1.57, and this model's IMEF of 1.57 equals that median. It also sits exactly at the federal minimum IMEF for the class. In the registry, 652 of the 870 models are rated at that same minimum, so no rank is claimed inside that tie. On IMEF, a higher value means more laundry washed per kilowatt-hour, and this model is not above the class median on that measure. The registry lists this rating for units sold as MVWB765F**, MVWB766F**. Other models in the same class can be checked through all clothes washer pages.

DOE CCD · 2026-10-25

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