To improve the economic performance of dual-motor battery electric vehicles, a novel driving pattern recognition-based energy management strategy (NDPREMS) is proposed in this paper. The NDPREMS firstly employs principal component analysis method to reduce the dimension of characteristic parameters of driving patterns and uses hierarchical cluster method for classifying driving patterns to construct a database of typical driving patterns, based on which a driving pattern recognizer is achieved using generalized regression neural network (GRNN) and the accuracy of this recognizer reaches 96.08%. In order to reasonably allocate the power between two motors, on the basis of rule-based energy management strategy (REMS), a dynamic programming-based energy management strategy (DPEMS) under typical driving patterns is formulated. By doing so, the logic thresholds of REMS are optimized, and thus, the NDPREMS is achieved. Comparison simulations of control effect concerning the REMS, DPEMS, and NDPREMS are performed under typical driving patterns. Results indicate that the proposed NDPREMS exhibits greater energy conservation compared with REMS, the economic improvement under urban driving pattern is the most obvious at 11.04%, the improvement under the comprehensive test driving pattern is 5.65%, and the performance of the NDPREMS is similar to that of DPEMS.