In this article, the first section introduces the structure of a typical electric vehicle’s control system. In the following section, the latest development of ITRI in vehicle functional safety is discussed. By taking the traction motor controller as a case study, implementation of the certification process of ISO26262 standard is illustrated. Its testing and verification were performed by a virtual verification platform which was based on the hardware-in-the-loop simulation method.Not only safe and reliable, the method proposed in this paper offers great reduction in development time and cost.