The invention discloses a double-gun direct current charging pile for an electric automobile. The double-gun direct current charging pile for the electric automobile comprises a charging pile casing, an intelligent controller, two charging interface modules, a rectification module, an electric leakage protection switch, a lightning arrester, an intelligent electric meter, a touch screen, a card reader, an auxiliary switch power supply, an intelligent monitoring module, an alternating current / direct current measurement and control module, an insulation detection module, a signal lamp, a sudden stop control switch and a cooling fan. The two charging interface modules comprise charging guns, direct current contactors, fusing protectors and shunts. Charging gun direct current charging interfaces DC + are connected with the direct current contactors and the fusing protectors respectively, two charging gun direct current charging interfaces DC- are jointly connected with a shunt, a charging gun auxiliary power interfaces each are connected with an auxiliary control relay, charging communication interfaces of the two charging guns are connected with a communication interface of the intelligent controller through a switching relay, the direct current contactors and the auxiliary control relay are controlled by and connected with the intelligent controller, and the intelligent controller is used for controlling auxiliary contacts of the direct current contactors and the auxiliary control relay.