A three phases induction motor is used as an electric vehicle propulsion system in this paper. The proposed neural network speed controller is design based on the space vector modulation technique on direct torque control. Since the electric drive performance significantly lean against on the design of speed controller, thus the improvement on the speed controller become the core of this research and so it is enhanced by replace the generic speed controller by the adaptive neural network controller. The performance of the control system in addition with the neural network learning scheme are depict in this paper. The complete schemes of both conventional and proposed scheme are simulated using Mathlab. The comparison system performance between the conventional direct torque control and the proposed intelligent neural network speed control have been investigated and show a satisfy result in both steady state and transient response. The simulation results verify that the proposed direct torque controller with the adaptive speed controller for induction motor satisfy and effectiveness enough as the candidate for electric vehicle propulsion.