An excellent alternative solution, i.e., electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, has become more popular and is attracting manufacturers, governments, and customers as rules on the emissions and fuel economy, global warming, and resource constraints have become more stringent. Now-a-days, multi phase machines being advantageous over their three phase counterparts, present themselves as the best solution for electric vehicle loads. In this work, five phase induction machine (FPIM) connected in pentagon configuration acts as a propulsive drive for electric vehicle load with standard drive cycle as well as user defined drive cycle. An open phase fault is modeled, and the back-EMF technique is used to represent the problem, which is then simulated in the MATLAB software. A suitable Fault Tolerant Control strategy (FTCS) is applied to machine drive system to keep the machine running in balanced condition with the remaining four phases. The operation of Pentagon connected FPIM with electric vehicle as load is demonstrated through simulation in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment using different drive cycles as reference in healthy as well as open-phase fault conditions. A trial and error based derating technique is applied such that the phase currents are reinstated.