Provided is a control device for an
electric vehicle, which suppresses a torque variation that occurs with a change in magnetic force of a
drive motor, without being affected by the performance of a
clutch. A
clutch (83) is disposed between a
drive motor (3) in which a rotor (33) is provided with a magnetic pole made of a magnetic force variable
magnet (35) and a
drive wheel (4R). When the vehicle (1) is running, a first
clutch control is executed in which the
coupling torque of the clutch (83) is controlled to be higher than the requested torque, together with torque control. When the vehicle (1) is running and the
magnetic flux control is executed, the first
clutch control is changed to a second
clutch control in which the
coupling torque is made to coincide with the requested torque before the execution of the
magnetic flux control, and the micro-slip control in which the clutch (83) is set from the coupled state to the micro-slip state is started by adding a prescribed slip torque to the requested torque.