V-ZUG 41009 vs ASKO HDBI344I Series

Both machines are priced on New South Wales’s reference electricity rate at 5 cycles a week. V-ZUG 41009 ranks #1 of 377 14-place-setting dishwashers in the government’s own appliance registry, the outright cheapest; ASKO HDBI344I Series ranks #5, the cheapest model from any other brand. 3 other models, all V-ZUG, rank between these two in the full top 10.

V-ZUG 41009 costs $18.58 less a year to run

Cheaper to run

V-ZUG 41009

0.30 kWh/cycle

$25.34

a year in NSW

ASKO HDBI344I Series

0.52 kWh/cycle

$43.92

a year in NSW

The ASKO’s figure comes from a single registry entry, HDBI344I.*.AU, which covers the colour variants of one design; every variant is the same physical dishwasher tested once, so the colour code doesn’t change the result, and every variant shares the 0.52 kWh/cycle test figure. The V-ZUG’s 0.30 kWh/cycle figure is its own single-model entry, 41009, with no variants pooled. Running cost alone can’t say which is better value here: weigh it against each model’s own price too.

$18.58/yr · $185.83/10yr

What choosing the V-ZUG 41009 over the ASKO HDBI344I Series saves

Running cost only: purchase prices aren’t in these figures, and $18.58 a year is about 5c a day. If the price tags on these two are far apart, the power bill won’t close that gap.

State by state

Running cost, every state and territory

Same 5-cycles-a-week household, priced on each state’s own reference electricity rate.

State	V-ZUG 41009	ASKO HDBI344I Series
New South Wales	$25.34	$43.92
Victoria	$23.31	$40.40
Queensland	$24.40	$42.30
South Australia	$29.80	$51.65
Western Australia	$26.28	$45.55
Tasmania	$22.60	$39.18
Australian Capital Territory	$21.43	$37.14
Northern Territory	$24.79	$42.97

Yearly cost by state

The gap, visualised

NSW

V-ZUG$25.34

ASKO$43.92

VIC

V-ZUG$23.31

ASKO$40.40

QLD

V-ZUG$24.40

ASKO$42.30

V-ZUG$29.80

ASKO$51.65

V-ZUG$26.28

ASKO$45.55

TAS

V-ZUG$22.60

ASKO$39.18

ACT

V-ZUG$21.43

ASKO$37.14

V-ZUG$24.79

ASKO$42.97

Same two machines, same 5 cycles a week, but the gap runs from $15.71/yr in Australian Capital Territory to $21.85/yr in South Australia, because each state prices the identical 0.22 kWh/cycle difference at its own usage rate. The dearer your electricity, the more an efficient model is worth.

See the full ranking

See where the other 8 of the top 10 cheapest 14-place-setting dishwashers land, including the other 3 V-ZUG models between these two, or plug your own cycles-a-week and state into the dishwasher cost per cycle calculator.

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