A vehicle control system for driving an electric vehicle having driving force generating means for driving the vehicle, accumulating means for accumulating driving energy for said vehicle, means for supplying the energy of said accumulating means to said driving force generating means, and control means for controlling said supplying means using a torque command generated by said driving force generating means. The control means includes a vehicle model simulating the operation of said vehicle under the torque generated by said driving force generating means and torque command calculating means for calculating said torque command using a value of vehicle model speed calculated by said vehicle model and the rotating speed of said driving force generating means.