With a wide speed range, high overload capacity and preventing permanent magnet demagnetization, negative-salient permanent magnet motors have a wide range of applications in the feld of electric vehicles. In view of the multiple operating conditions of the electric vehicle drive motor, this paper proposes a new type of combined magnetic pole negative-salient permanent magnet motor considering the driving conditions. Firstly, the optimization parameters of the motors are determined according to the analysis of the mathematical model. The design parameters are layered by the comprehensive sensitivity analysis, and the response surface Box-Behnken Design method and multi-objective genetic algorithm-II are used for optimization. Then, the electromagnetic performance of the proposed motor and the traditional interior permanent magnet motors are compared and analyzed through the fnite element simulation. Finally, a prototype is manufactured and the rationality of the proposed motor structure is verifed by experiments.