Well, Tesla does have an S.I. unit named after him (magnetic field, <a href="http://www.unitarium.com/si-units" rel="nofollow">http://www.unitarium.com/si-units</a> ).<p>Better yet, he managed to keep his name's final vowel - Volta and Faraday got theirs chopped off (seems there's a story about that).<p>(P.S. afterthought on electric cars: GM took the hint, and grabbed another couple of SI unit names for their US/EU models ;-)