Model
Electrolux ELFE422C***
Rank #79 means 78 of the 615 clothes dryer models we track cost less to run each year; the 72nd efficiency percentile means it uses less energy for its size than 72% of those models.
What does the Electrolux ELFE422C*** cost to run per year?
Among the 615 clothes dryer models we track, the Electrolux ELFE422C***'s $59/yr running cost ranks it #79, comfortably in the cheap-to-run group. Size-adjusted, this model beats 72% of clothes dryer models we track on efficiency, better than most of its class. Its CEF of 2.68 reflects combined energy factor, one of the class's core efficiency levers.
Immediately around it on the leaderboard, the Ge GFT14JS*M*** at $59/yr runs a little cheaper and the Electrolux ELFE4222*** at $59/yr runs a little more, a sense of how tightly models are packed at this point in the ranking. A clothes dryer typically stays in service for somewhere around 13 years; over that span, the Electrolux ELFE422C***'s $59/yr adds up to roughly $767 in electricity alone, before purchase price or repairs.
Also sold as: Aeg DC240.
By the numbers
The Electrolux ELFE422C*** normalized against its whole class, so each figure means something.
What it costs you over time
Running cost is an every-year number, so it compounds. At $59/yr, here is what the Electrolux ELFE422C*** adds up to before purchase price, water, or repairs enter the math.
Left running for a decade at today's US average rate, the Electrolux ELFE422C*** costs about $590. That is roughly $540 less than the class median, which would run closer to $1130 over the same ten years.
How the Electrolux ELFE422C*** compares
The clothes dryer class we track runs from $23 to $128 a year. At $59/yr, it runs about $54 a year cheaper than the class median of $113, and it is about $36 a year more than the cheapest clothes dryer to run at $23.
What drives its running cost
At 4 cu ft, the Electrolux ELFE422C*** is a small clothes dryer for its class, which spans 3.8 to 9.2 cu ft with a median of 7.4 cu ft, at the small end of the class, capacity itself is doing a lot of the work to keep that figure down, separate from how efficient the unit actually is. Its CEF of 2.68, below the class median of 3.93, reflects combined energy factor: a higher figure means it wrings more useful work out of every kilowatt-hour, so it is the efficiency lever to weigh against raw size.
- Heat source and Combined Energy Factor (CEF). Heat-pump dryers recycle heat instead of generating it fresh with a resistance coil, and typically use meaningfully less electricity per load than a conventional resistance dryer, at the cost of a longer cycle; CEF is the federal figure that captures this.
- Drum capacity. A larger drum can dry a bigger load per cycle, but it also usually needs more energy per cycle to heat the extra air volume.
Common questions
Is the Electrolux ELFE422C*** cheap to run?
Yes. Its $59/yr running cost puts it at rank #79 of 615, below what most clothes dryer models we track cost to run.
How much does the Electrolux ELFE422C*** cost per month?
About $4.9 a month, which is the $59 annual estimate spread across twelve months at the US average rate of $0.1856/kWh. Your own bill scales with your local electricity rate and how heavily you use it.
How is this running-cost figure calculated?
The formula is annual kWh times price per kWh: 317 kWh from ENERGY STAR times the US average of $0.1856/kWh comes to about $59 a year. It covers electricity only, not the purchase price, water, or installation.
How efficient is the Electrolux ELFE422C*** for its size?
72nd percentile once size is factored in. That means its size-adjusted efficiency is a real factor in the running-cost figure above; its capacity plays a large role too.
Cheaper to run in the same class
| Rank | Model | Cost/yr |
|---|---|---|
| 63 | Ge GFT14JS*M***4.1 cu ft | $59 |
| 62 | Ge GFT14ES*M***4.1 cu ft | $59 |
| 61 | Lg Signature WM9998H*A5.8 cu ft | $58 |
| 60 | Lg WKHC202H*A7.2 cu ft | $55 |
| 59 | Gorenje DNPAHPU4.2 cu ft | $53 |
Source
ES_1021080_ELFE422C***_03112020133356_3636194View certified clothes dryer listingsENERGY STAR data as of July 2026Electrolux and ELFE422C*** are used here for identification only and are not endorsements. Figures are computed by WattWise Labs from public ENERGY STAR data, not measured in our own lab.