Method for preventing theft of an electric vehicle and an electric vehicle applying the same

A method for preventing theft of an electric vehicle (2) includes steps (a) and (b). In step (a), when a switch detector (22) detects that the state of a main switch (21) is an OFF state, and when a rotation detector (26) detects that a drive wheel (25) is rotating, a controller (28) is configured to count a time period of rotation of the drive wheel (25) . In step (b), the controller (28) is configured to enable a locking mechanism (27) for locking the drive wheel (25) from rotation when the time period counted by the controller (28) reaches a preset time period.