This thesis proposes an effective control strategy for torque ripple minimization in an Internal Permanent Magnet (IPM) electric motor designed for traction in low- to medium-speed vehicles. The proposed approach introduces a feedforward compensation layer within a Field-Oriented Control (FOC) framework, employing a position-dependent reference current generator. All the look-up tables (LUTs) in the controller are functions of the rotor angular position, enabling more accurate tracking of the reference torque. An FEM-based model of the motor was developed in ANSYS Motor-CAD and exported to Simulink for the implementation of the power converter and control algorithms. The feedforward-based strategy was then compared with two alternative approaches: a conventional Proportional-Integral (PI) controller and a Proportional-Integral-Resonant (PIR) controller, the latter being considered state-of-the-art in torque ripple minimization.