In recent days, owing to large attention drawn towards electric mobility, there has been a considerable research focus on electric motors for vehicular propulsion. Though permanent magnet-based synchronous motors and Brushless DC motors are widely used for electric vehicular applications, they face severe challenges such as high cost, environmental impact of rare earth metal extraction, effect of temperature on motor performance. This motivates the use of Permanent Magnet-free motors for vehicles, among which a switched reluctance motor is a prospective candidate, favoured by several advantages, including simple construction, low manufacturing cost, good fault tolerance, etc. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to the development of a hardware architecture for a switched reluctance motor-based power drive system for an electric vehicle, keeping an e-scooter application in mind. The design and schematic of the power converter board, gate driver card, and the sensor circuitry are presented. Further, the suitability of SRM for use in electric vehicles is reiterated with the help of closed-loop control implementation of an SRM drive powered with an asymmetric H-bridge converter, driven by the current chopped control algorithm. With the simulation results, it is demonstrated that the control performance of the SRM drive is well-comparable with that of other permanent magnet-based motor counterparts.