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.

Volkswagen ID hatchback

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Finally, Volkswagen will launch the first car for its new I.D. electric vehicle range. A hatchback intended to be an electric Golf for the next decade, the first I.D. will go into mass production towards the end of 2019.

Volkswagen says the car will have a range of between 250 and 370 miles, far exceeding the company's only previous all-electric offering, the 186-mile e-Golf. The company is yet to reveal a price for the I.D., but says it will be comparable to a diesel Volkswagen of a similar size.

After this, VW plans to begin selling the ID Crozz crossover, the ID Buzz microbus, and the Budd-e, an electric reimagination of the classic VW minibus from the 1960s. These will contribute towards VW's goal to sell one million electric cars annually by 2025.

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