The invention discloses an active obstacle avoiding method for a four-wheel hub drive electric automobile with multiple modes. The method aims at improving the obstacle avoiding capacity of the electric automobile, so that the travel safety of the electric automobile is improved. According to information of different automobile speeds and the real-time distance between the automobile and an obstacle, a control method with the multiple modes is adopted for properly controlling the four-wheel hub drive and braking electric automobile, and therefore active obstacle avoidance of the electric automobile is achieved. Especially in an emergency, the automobile can make a turn rapidly to avoid the obstacle through control over wheels on one side for braking and control over wheels on the other side for driving, and therefore the collision rate of the automobile and the short-distance obstacle is greatly reduced. Due to the fact that no steering input operation is related, the situation that a driver is panic due to the fact that steering assisting control and the decision making intension of the driver are different is avoided, the operation burden of the driver is reduced to a great extent, traffic accidents caused by mistaken steering operation conducted by the driver in the emergency are reduced, and the travel safety is improved.