Model
Truarctic TAFD2438HW
Rank #88 means 87 of the 615 clothes dryer models we track cost less to run each year; the 32nd efficiency percentile means it uses less energy for its size than 32% of those models.
What does the Truarctic TAFD2438HW cost to run per year?
The Truarctic TAFD2438HW holds rank #88 of 615 on running cost, at about $59 a year, a genuinely cheap result for the class. Its size-adjusted efficiency percentile of 32 suggests its capacity is doing more work than its efficiency to keep the headline cost down. At a CEF of 2.68, its combined energy factor is the single figure that best explains how it earns its running-cost number.
Immediately around it on the leaderboard, the Summit SLDC2404 at $59/yr runs a little cheaper and the Whirlpool YWFH5424S** 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 Truarctic TAFD2438HW's $59/yr adds up to roughly $767 in electricity alone, before purchase price or repairs.
By the numbers
The Truarctic TAFD2438HW 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 Truarctic TAFD2438HW adds up to before purchase price, water, or repairs enter the math.
Left running for a decade at today's US average rate, the Truarctic TAFD2438HW 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 Truarctic TAFD2438HW 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 3.8 cu ft, the Truarctic TAFD2438HW 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. The CEF of 2.68 on this model, below the class median of 3.93, measures combined energy factor; it is the number to compare directly against another model's CEF if capacity is similar.
- 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 Truarctic TAFD2438HW cheap to run?
Yes. Its $59/yr running cost puts it at rank #88 of 615, below what most clothes dryer models we track cost to run.
How much does the Truarctic TAFD2438HW 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 Truarctic TAFD2438HW for its size?
32nd percentile once size is factored in. That means its size-adjusted efficiency is not the main reason for the running-cost figure above; its capacity plays a large role too.
Cheaper to run in the same class
| Rank | Model | Cost/yr |
|---|---|---|
| 87 | Summit SLDC24044 cu ft | $59 |
| 86 | Summit LDES2484 cu ft | $59 |
| 85 | Marathon MVD420W4 cu ft | $59 |
| 84 | Danby DDY040D4DSDB4 cu ft | $59 |
| 83 | Danby DDY040D4WDB4 cu ft | $59 |
Source
ES_1152481_TAFD2438HW_091920250650204_9943480View certified clothes dryer listingsENERGY STAR data as of July 2026Truarctic and TAFD2438HW 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.