To provide an electric wheelchair allowing an elderly person to easily recognize the method of operation, and allowing a person with disability in hands to activate a theft prevention mode or to cancel the mode.

The electric wheelchair has a steering device S including a steering shaft 3 erected upward above a front wheel 2 disposed in the front of a car body 1, and a handle 4 disposed at the upper end of the steering shaft 3. An operator seated on a single seat 8 in the rear of the steering device S operates the handle 4 to steer the front wheel 2. The electric wheelchair also has a steering detection means SK capable of detecting that the front wheel is steered. The electric wheelchair enters the theft prevention mode by prescribed operation while the wheelchair is stopped, and if the steering detecting means SK is activated in this state, an abnormality announcing means for announcing an abnormality to the periphery is activated. The electric wheelchair is characterized by such the control.