The invention discloses a passive series composite power source braking energy recovery system. The passive series composite power source braking energy recovery system comprises a storage battery, a motor, a motor controller, a rectifier bridge, a supercapacitor, diodes, a switch and a controller. During regenerative braking, a three-phase counter electromotive force only charges the supercapacitor through the rectifier bridge, and the storage battery dose not participate in energy recovery; in the driving process, the storage battery is in series connection with the supercapacitor to output electric energy; through the diodes in parallel, the battery is prevented from conducting reverse charging on the supercapacitor; the system can be switched to be in storage battery single driving mode, and thus energy consumption of an output current on the diodes during long-time outputting is avoided; the controller controls switching of the switch, the strict requirements during switching are avoided, that is, zero-current switching can be conducted in a non-driving state; and the controller continuously detects the voltage at the supercapacitor end, the voltage of the storage battery, and the braking vehicle speed, and sends a PWM signal to control on-off of a thyristor in the rectifier bridge, direct current chopping of a braking current is achieved, and the electric braking deceleration is controlled. The passive series composite power source braking energy recovery system utilizes the rectifier bridge to recover braking energy, and the energy utilization rate is increased.