A new pilot program in Massachusetts will pay electric vehicle owners for supporting the grid. Dozens of electric vehicle owners in Massachusetts will start earning money by sharing the energy stored in their EV batteries with the local electricity grid in times of need, Heatmap News reported on Thursday. For a long time, the idea of EV drivers earning money by sharing battery power sounded cool in theory but hadn’t necessarily materialized. Residents will earn an unspecified sum just for participation to encourage more drivers to sign up, and they will earn up to $275 per kilowatt over the summer for sharing electricity from their EV batteries, per the report. This isn’t the only program in the country experimenting with vehicle-to-grid power sharing.