Environmental pollution is one of the serious issues in the current era. In diminishing this issue, electric vehicles (EVs) can play one key role. Again, along with the development of modern drive technologies in various electric traction applications, a comprehensive understanding of proper motor selection, is also becoming much important. This paper compares induction motor (IM), brushless DC (BLDC) motor and permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) for EV traction applications. In this study, field-oriented control (FOC) strategy with ANN based controller, is chosen due to its accuracy, fast dynamical response and ease of proper torque and speed control. This comparative study and the model simulation has been carried out in the MATLAB/Simulink environment.