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Abstract This study empirically analyzes the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on electric vehicle technology innovation by employing a machine learning-based text mining model and the international patent classification (IPC) co-occurrence network analysis, using patent data filed from 1980 to 2017. Based on artificial intelligence algorithms classified, the study demonstrates the dynamic changing pattern of the convergence of artificial intelligence and electric vehicle technology and reveals how artificial intelligence has affected electric vehicle technology innovation over time. This study reveals that artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of electric vehicle driving, and that artificial intelligence algorithms that are widely used in electric vehicles have changed over time, and that technology areas of electric vehicles that AI affects also have been changed.