A control device and method of an electric vehicle for realizing virtual drive system sensibility is disclosed. A main objective is to provide the control device and method of the electric vehicle capable of realizing and providing differentiated driving sensibility that may be felt in other drive systems such as a drive system of an internal combustion engine vehicle. The control method includes determining a basic torque command, for controlling operation of a driving motor, from vehicle driving information collected by a controller while driving a vehicle; determining a virtual drive system torque command, which is a corrected torque command for realizing virtual drive system sensibility, from a determined basic torque command by using a virtual drive system model preset in the controller, and controlling torque of the driving motor by the controller according to a determined virtual drive system torque command.