Expect 2019 the year electric cars finally go mainstream.

While electric vehicles from Tesla and Jaguar proved popular at the luxury end of the market — with Nissan and Renault finding their own niche — 2019 will see the world's biggest car companies, like Audi, BMW and Volkswagen, go all-in on battery power.

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This shift has been years coming, and will continue to take effect into the next decade. But with so many mass-production EVs (electric vehicles) waiting in the wings for a 2019 launch, the next 12 months in particular will be thoroughly exciting.

As the world's biggest car makers go electric, we'll see also see Tesla take its Model 3 to Europe, the UK and beyond, and finally bring the promised and highly-anticipated $35,000 entry-level Model 3 to market in the US. 2019 will see electric cars become both affordable and widely accessible.

Bringing further options to the lower end of the electric car market will be BMW with the Mini E, and Honda with a production version of the Urban EV concept which won so many hearts with its retro looks back in 2017.

Click through the slideshow for the 13 new electric cars to get excited about in 2019.

Audi E-tron GT

  

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Audi's third E-tron car — after the SUV and Sportback — will be the GT, short for Gran Turismo. Revealed as a concept in 2018, this will be a saloon car which is powered using the same EV technology as the Porsche Taycan.

Audi says the car has a range of almost 250 miles and it will go on sale in late-2020. However, given the car looks close to production-ready and some journalists have already been allowed to drive it, we suspect a finished version will arrive in 2019.

Naturally, the E-tron GT will rival the Porsche Taycan (also a four-seat sedan) and the Tesla Model S. We expect to see the Audi cost in the region of $60,000 to $85,000.

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