The invention relates to a method for determining the angular offset between the rotor and the stator of an electrical machine for driving a motor vehicle, the rotor being supplied with a rotor-energizing current and voltage, the stator being supplied over three phases with stator-phase currents and voltages, wherein the method includes the following steps: verifying that the electrical machine is stopped; applying a rotor-energizing signal for an amount of time capable of causing the partial magnetization of the rotor; applying a rotor-de-energizing signal capable of causing an active and rapid demagnetization of the rotor, while measuring, during the magnetization, the stator-phase currents and maintaining zero voltage among the phases of the stator; determining the direct stator currents and quadrature stator currents corresponding to the stator-phase currents measured by applying Park and Clarke transforms and in accordance with a measurement of the electrical position of the rotor; determining the maximum values among the direct and quadrature stator currents; transmitting an angular offset fault signal if the absolute value of the maximum quadrature stator signal is greater than a threshold value; determining a correction of the angular offset in radians by calculating the tangent arc of the maximum quadrature stator current value divided by the maximum value of the direct stator current.