With the growing number of Electric Vehicles on roads, it is essential to ensure their safety, reliability and comfort during operation. This work first considers a fault in the Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) of an Electric Vehicle and its effects on various components during operation. Further, by understanding these effects, a suitable Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) strategy is proposed to mitigate the effect of the fault for restoring safety and comfort. This FTC controller is integrated as an additional control module in the existing control structure of the electric vehicle. While developing the fault tolerant control strategy, the driver response to the fault is also considered and the FTC is accordingly designed. The results in simulation environment demonstrate the capability of the proposed FTC in addressing the effects of sudden fault occurrence in the AMT for a drive cycle.