An electric motor control system for an electric vehicle, comprising: a control module for receiving a throttle signal and one or more phase signals indicative of a phase angle of an electric motor, and for outputting a boost signal, a pulse width modulated (PWM) motor control signal and a phase advance signal; a DC/DC converter module arranged to receive the boost signal from the control module and to selectively increase a voltage of a motor power supply in response thereto; and a motor driver module arranged to receive the motor power supply and the phase advance signal and to output driving current to a plurality of windings of the electric motor; wherein the control module is arranged to determine a duty cycle of the PWN motor control signal, to selectively control the boost signal and phase advance signal for controlling an operating speed and torque of the motor according to the throttle signal and phase signals.