Why did you delete your character? If you really wanted to pick a different color (which is the only reason to roll a new character really) you should have kept your old one so you could transfer all their mats and crowns over to the new one, as well as not losing access to the mist tanks you earned (since energy is shared across characters)
But yeah, if you want to play completely for free its really slow in the beginning since you cant craft and play on the same day, and you arent making enough money to buy energy. Once you get to tier 2 it picks up. I recommend dropping a couple bucks on the game to get a head start then just buying the rest of the energy you need with crowns. Your gear still upgrades slowly but at least you can play as much as you want.
seeing as how CE can only be gotten by buying it either with real world money or in game crowns no it does not recharge every day.
Your mist energy DOES recharge back to full in about 22 hours, but it is a constant slow recharge so you have to start timing from when you logged off/last used energy.