Provided is a two-wheeled electric vehicle that includes a battery, a three-phase alternating current electric motor, a motor controller, an accelerator operator, and an accelerator operation detection means. The electric motor is constructed so as to generate driving force to be transmitted to a drive wheel when current is supplied from the battery, and to generate a prescribed braking torque when the three-phase coil short-circuits. The motor controller includes: a short circuit control means that places the electric motor in the short-circuited state when short-circuiting conditions are met; a release control means that releases the short-circuited state when release conditions are met while the electric motor is in the short-circuited state; and a regeneration control means that executes a regeneration operation whereby regenerative current generated by the electric motor is supplied to the battery when the operation amount of the accelerator operator is zero. When the short-circuited state is released by the release control means, the regeneration control means controls the regenerative current such that the electric motor generates the same braking torque as during the three-phase short-circuited state.