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.

BMW iX3

  

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BMW already has its electric i3 and hybrid i8, and in 2019 it will begin production of the new i3X, an electric version of the company's X3 compact SUV. Pre-orders have been open since September 2018 — despite no one having driven it yet — and production is expected to begin in 2019, with deliveries starting in early-2020.

Similar to how Tesla opened pre-orders for the Model 3 back in 2016, the upfront payment gives potential buyers a place in line. However, the car's actual price — and much of its specifications — are still unknown for now. BMW is hoping the very premise of an electric X3 will be enough to tempt buyers into securing their order with a deposit.

We expect to learn much more about the iX3 through 2019, and possibly as early as the Geneva motor show in March - where many electric vehicles are expected to be present.

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