PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric vehicle having a function capable of detecting a road surface shape other than a general road and an obstacle on a running road with a practical accuracy while reducing a load on hardware. An external sensor (10) for acquiring three-dimensional position data of a visual field range including a ground surface (5) in front of a vehicle, and a processing means (20) for detecting a road surface shape and a three-dimensional object from the three-dimensional position data. In the electric vehicle (1), the processing means comprises: and a failure determination means (45) for determining whether or not the road surface shape and the three-dimensional object detected by the processing means are obstacles on the route. The near-distance processing (22) for detecting the road surface shape is performed in the lower area (10b) of the visual field range, and the three-dimensional object is detected in the remaining upper area (10a) at a lower resolution than the near-distance processing. The long distance processing (23) is separately performed. [Selection diagram] Figure 4【課題】ハードウエアへの負担を低減しつつ実用的な精度で一般道路以外の路面形状や走路上の障害の検出を行える機能を備えた電動車両を提供する。【解決手段】車両前方の地表面（５）を含む視野範囲の３次元位置データを取得する外界センサ（１０）と、前記３次元位置データから路面形状および立体物を検出する処理手段（２０）と、前記処理手段に検出された路面形状および立体物が進路上の障害となるか否かを判定する障害判定手段（４５）と、を備えた電動車両（１）において、前記処理手段は、前記視野範囲の下側領域（１０ｂ）にて路面形状の検出を行う近距離処理（２２）と、残余の上側領域（１０ａ）にて前記近距離処理よりも低解像度で立体物の検出を行う遠距離処理（２３）とに、分けて実施するように構成されている。【選択図】図４
