The invention discloses an electric vehicle cooling system and a control method. The electric vehicle cooling system is composed of a motor cooling system and a battery cooling system, the motor cooling system is composed of a liquid storage tank, a radiator, an electric fan, a water temperature sensor, an electric water pump, a motor, a controller and a DCDC, the liquid storage tank, the radiator, the electric fan, the water temperature sensor, the motor, the controller and the DCDC are connected through a cooling pipeline, and the water temperature sensor is used for collecting temperature signals and transmitting the temperature signals to the controller; and the battery cooling system is composed of an electric water pump, a PTC, a heat exchanger, a CHILLER, an electric water pump, a battery, a water temperature sensor and a liquid storage tank which are connected through a cooling pipeline, and the water temperature sensor collects temperature signals and then transmits the temperature signals to the controller. The electric vehicle cooling system control method is divided into a motor cooling control method and a battery cooling control method. According to the electric vehicle cooling system and the control method, the cooling system can be simplified, and power consumption of parts of the cooling system is reduced; and the control method effectively avoids frequent opening and closing of parts of the cooling system and improves NVH of the system.