The present invention discloses a switched reluctance motor for an electric vehicle. The switched reluctance motor comprises a gear box cover, a gear baffle plate, a center gear, a front cover, a rotor, a motor shell, a stator, a back cover, a Hall sensor, a blade cover, a fan and a fan cover which are orderly arranged from front to back. The switched reluctance motor is characterized in that the top cross section of inner teeth is wider than that of a column body, and the connection surface of each two tooth roots of the outer teeth of the stator is in the shape of an inward taper. According to the motor, through arranging rotor and stator structures which are mutually embedded, the operation efficiency is higher than that of a traditional series excited motor and a brushless DC motor, the loss is lower than that of an existing motor, the cost is lowest, the enamelled wire dosage of a coil is reduced for 1 / 3 to 1 / 2 compared with that of the series excited motor, and the adjustability is higher than that of the traditional series excited motor and brushless DC motor. The switched reluctance motor has the advantages of long-term continuous operation and stable and reliable quality.