To provide a compact drive wheel structure for a vehicle having multiple functions.

The drive wheel structure for the vehicle employing a wheel in motor structure is equipped with: a wheel mounting member having a wheel to be fixed to a vehicle outside end; a knuckle for rotatably supporting the wheel mounting member around a wheel rotary shaft; two hollow drive gears independently rotatably housed inside the knuckle around the wheel rotary shaft; two independently controllable coaxial motors which are provided in respective inside of the drive gears one by one, in which a stator is fixed to the drive gear, and a rotor is fixed to the wheel mounting member; and a motion conversion mechanism which converts a relative rotation around the wheel rotary shaft between two drive gears to a rotary motion around an axis orthogonal to the wheel rotary shaft or a linear motion parallel to the wheel rotary shaft.

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