The invention relates to a self-balancing electric vehicle. The self-balancing electric vehicle is characterized in that two platforms for holding a user can be driven to travel by mutual swinging; the self-balancing electric vehicle comprises an inner cover, two wheels, two hub motors and an electric drive system; the inner cover comprises a first inner cover and a second inner cover mutually rotatable and symmetrically arranged; the wheels extend out of two opposing sides of the inner cover, respectively, are fixed to two sides of the inner cover and can rotate relative to the inner cover; the hub motors are disposed inside the wheels, respectively; the electric drive system is electrically connected with the hub motors and is fixed to the inner cover; the electric drive system comprises a power supply, a controller and a plurality of sensors fixed to the inner cover; the controller is electrically connected with the sensors, the power supply and the hub motors; the controller controls the corresponding hub motors to drive the corresponding wheels to rotate according to sensing signals transmitted by the sensors.