So your saying not only do you get your 'free' energy for your car and your car does not pollute anything.
Your definitely a glasses more than half full (and nearly always never empties) kind of guy. ;-)
I wish I was that super positive.
When looking at Ecotricitys energy cost (when I was shopping around for energy) they were the most expensive. Also the so called electric car discount of £40 did not make any dent in the overall price of energy at the end of the year as it was in fact more by £334 for my energy needs.
So to me it was not worth it and certainly not free I went with First Utilty and got a rate of 9p per kwh with a standing charge of 12p, Ecotricity was no where near to that.
For your minimal charging needs it may work but 4000 miles, dude your barely driving the car!?
I've driven to Sweden in our Nissan Leaf (yes it is ugly and looks like a squashed hamster and I hate that it does not look like and Audi A2) and lived there for 10 months and then drove back. So I have seen what energy prices are across Europe too for cars.
To me Ecotricity are still expensive for what energy they claim to offer or what your are actually getting when charging up even if you do a comparison checker online.
So again your energy for your car is not free.
Here are some stats from our car compared to the A2 I bought and then stupidly sold.
I theoretically paid £448.97p for the 23,000 miles I've done in it at the base rate of 9p per kwh which I was getting at home via First Utility.
I also adjusted the actual cost of the energy when it was not at home charging at 9p per kwh, though this was not easy as some companys (EH) did not ever tell you how much the cost was before initiating the charge.
I too got a discount on energy by living in Bedfordshire, whereby all of the chargers here are offered for free (though I am paying for that energy as I pay Council Tax) so I left the rate for this at 9p per kwh to see what I would have paid if I was paying for it. So for some of that £448.97 I have, but have not, paid all of it.
The other chargers in France, Netherlands, Belgian, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway varied wildly in prices. Though none of which had the Ecotricity (at the time) charging costs delivered in 30 minutes for £6 (which they have now changed to 17p per kwh which is still expensive in comparison to Sweden and EON) so Ecotricity at the time were charging (in some cases dependant on how full or not your car was) up to 70p per kwh for energy as the car charging delivery rates lower the fuller the car is.
So even with my best intentions of getting 'free' energy wherever I could and for 10 months someone else paying for our energy I have not ever been able to claim my car was free to run so I have no idea how you can. But then you did say you have only driven it for 4000 miles so far so can see you are not really going anywhere in it so your costs would be low, but still not free. But I am not as super positive as you and Scottish so always look at things like the glass is less than half empty.
On another note, I still think the i3 could have had 4 real doors, been more comfortable and practical and still kept it's A2 looks, had it not been for the BMW 'waste gate' recall and the carbon monoxide poisoning in my wifes Mini I may have liked BMW more. But I don't so I am biased.
Because I have Ecotricity for my home electricity they give me 52 free fast charges at their service stations and I have a local one.
I get a minimum of 80 miles of chargeeach time (my i3 has the extended range batteries and so if I have 40 miles left on the range I get it to 120 on the free charges)
I have only done 4,000 miles over the ten months I had the car.
If I ever need to charge at home I have economy 7 and so the overnight cost is very low anyway.
My home bills have not increased since I had the car and it really does mean that it is free to run.
I am talking facts not assumptions.
Yes our home electricity charges are above average but to me it ios worth it to ensure that there is ZERO pollution caused by my driving (I am no eco nut, but it is something I like)
Steve B