Car brand named for an engineer (5)

I believe the answer is:

tesla

(Other definitions for tesla that I've seen before include "Inventive sort" , "SI unit; steal (anag.)" , "Unit of magnetic flux density" , "Physics unit" , "American scientist" .)

I've seen this clue in the USA Today.

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