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.

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Mini E

BMW

BMW will begin production of an electric Mini at its factory in the UK in 2019. This will be the first mass-produced electric car to carry the Mini badge, and is expected to offer a retro-styled alternative to the equally small electric Renault Zoe, and the larger (but possibly more expensive) Tesla Model 3.

BMW has said very little about what the electric Mini will be like, other than showing a prototype back in August 2017. We suspect the car will be similar in design to its internal combustion-powered siblings — especially the three-door hatchback — and range should be around 200 miles.

If the price can be kept reasonable (as in, below the $35,000 Tesla Model 3), then BMW and Mini should have a sure-fire hit on its hands.

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