There is something on the website about "honoring his (Tesla's) legacy". That, and it runs off of AC power are the only connections I know of.
Well, as we could expect from the people involved with the project, marketing is their middle name. I was really hoping some of Nikola's inventions led to a breakthrough but instead find some guys ripping off his legacy, albeit with a nice car if they can get the production price down. As we can see from the poster's addition to the thread title, people automatically equate the car to Nikola Tesla.