Drive device for an electric vehicle, having: - a stator which is configured to generate a rotating magnetic field and has: - a stator core which extends along a longitudinal axis and in which a multiplicity of slots arranged in the circumferential direction are configured, and - a stator winding which occupies a plurality of winding zones in the slots, wherein, in a cross-sectional plane that is perpendicular with respect to the longitudinal axis, each winding zone is subdivided by way of a centric radial division into a first side and into a second side; wherein - the stator winding has a number N of phases (U, V, W) and a number 2·P of poles, and the number of slots is 2·P·N·q, where q ≥ 2, and each winding zone extends across at least q+1 of the slots, wherein P, N and q are natural numbers, wherein - each winding zone is radially subdivided into first to L-th layers (32a-f) which are designated according to their sequence in the radial direction, wherein the layers (32a-f) configure first to (L/2)th double layers (33a-c), wherein the i-th double layer (33a-c) comprises the (2i-1)th and the th layer (32a-f) for all 1 ≤ i ≤ (L/2), wherein L ≥ 6 and is even, wherein L and i are natural numbers, and - a converter device for converting magnetic energy of the rotating field into a rotating output movement of the drive device, wherein the converter device has - a rotor which, with the stator, configures a rotating electric machine such that the rotor is able to be set in a rotating rotor movement which, as a function of the rotating field, selectively has one of two opposite rotation directions, and - a transmission portion which is configured for transmitting the rotating rotor movement to the rotating output movement, characterized in that the converter device has one of the two rotation directions of the rotating rotor movement as the preferred rotation direction, wherein the second side follows the first side along the preferred rotation direction, and each winding zone occupies a smaller cross-sectional area of the slots on the first side than on the second side. - a stator which is configured to generate a rotating magnetic field and has: - a stator core which extends along a longitudinal axis and in which a multiplicity of slots arranged in the circumferential direction are configured, and - a stator winding which occupies a plurality of winding zones in the slots, wherein, in a cross-sectional plane that is perpendicular with respect to the longitudinal axis, each winding zone is subdivided by way of a centric radial division into a first side and into a second side; wherein - the stator winding has a number N of phases (U, V, W) and a number 2·P of poles, and the number of slots is 2·P·N·q, where q ≥ 2, and each winding zone extends across at least q+1 of the slots, wherein P, N and q are natural numbers, wherein - each winding zone is radially subdivided into first to L-th layers (32a-f) which are designated according to their sequence in the radial direction, wherein the layers (32a-f) configure first to (L/2)th double layers (33a-c), wherein the i-th double layer (33a-c) comprises the (2i-1)th and the th layer (32a-f) for all 1 ≤ i ≤ (L/2), wherein L ≥ 6 and is even, wherein L and i are natural numbers, and - a converter device for converting magnetic energy of the rotating field into a rotating output movement of the drive device, wherein the converter device has - a rotor which, with the stator, configures a rotating electric machine such that the rotor is able to be set in a rotating rotor movement which, as a function of the rotating field, selectively has one of two opposite rotation directions, and - a transmission portion which is configured for transmitting the rotating rotor movement to the rotating output movement,