The invention relates to a grid-shaped rotor motor for a range extender of an electric automobile and belongs to the technical field of electric automobiles. The grid-shaped rotor motor is composed of a crankshaft, a shell, a stator iron core, an exciting winding and an armature winding, wherein ten rectangular holes are uniformly formed in the circumferential surface of the shell, and a grid-shaped iron core capable of conducting magnetism is arranged between any two rectangular holes; the stator iron core fixedly arranged on a range extender shell is composed of 12 substator iron cores uniformly distributed in a left inverted 'n' shape, stator poles projecting along the radial direction are arranged at the two sides of each substator iron core, and the side surface of each stator pole is in a sectional shape; the distance between two stator poles on one substator iron core is less than the axial length of each rectangular hole in the shell; the exciting winding is formed by winding yokes of all the 12 substator iron cores. The grid-shaped rotor motor provided by the invention can fully play the advantage of high power density of a disc type motor, and the exciting winding is short in path and small in copper loss.