An electrical drive unit for a motor vehicle, with the drive unit including a wheel-hub drive that drives a vehicle wheel and that is arranged on the vehicle wheel by a wheel bearing, the wheel-hub drive having a rotor and a stator. According to the invention, a sealing device is provided between the rotor and the stator, and/or between the rotor and a component adjacent to the rotor, and/or between the stator and a component adjacent to the stator. A sealing surface of the sealing device is arranged on a radius with the center point around a virtual tilt axis of the wheel bearing, or substantially along a tangent to the radius.