Above: The model T.A. electric truck and the model R.A. roadster.
Below: a 1913 Tate.

Tate Accumulator Co. of Canada was a Toronto company that produced batteries for use with electric cars, gasoline cars and motor boats. In an effort to show off their powerful batteries, in 1912 Tate Accumulator started a new company, Tate Electric, Ltd., based in Walkerville, Ontario.

The following year, Tate Electric had an impressive array of electric vehicles for purchase, including a roadster capable of 30 m.p.h. and priced at $2,700 as well as several trucks.

What doomed all electric cars of the time, however, was the introduction of the electric starter. Tate ceased production in late 1914 or early 1915.  Its plant was purchased by the Chalmers Motor Car Co. in 1916.