Fox ESS Signs Youngest Porsche Carrera Cup Germany Winner, Champion On and Off the Track

HOCKENHEIM, Germany, Nov. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Fox ESS, a global leader in renewable energy solutions, has signed Janne Stiak, the youngest race winner in Porsche Carrera Cup Germany history, as one of the faces of its 2026 campaign, "The Champion's Choice". The campaign is built around the slogan "Higher, Faster, Smarter".

Stiak is both a record-breaking driver and an apprentice electrician who has already installed dozens of Fox ESS energy storage systems. The partnership brings together elite motorsport performance and real hands-on renewable energy experience.

His story started on a family vacation at age 10, when he first sat in a go-kart. Seven years later, at just 17, he became the youngest winner in Porsche Carrera Cup Germany history while still continuing his electrician apprenticeship and regularly installing residential energy storage systems. Fox ESS followed a similar fast path. Founded only in 2019, the company had already grown into the global number-one residential energy storage brand by market share in 2025, according to S&P Global Energy. In H1 2026, Fox ESS secured the NO.1 market share in global residential energy storage by InfoLink Consulting.

"Most people are surprised when I say I'm doing an electrician apprenticeship alongside racing," Stiak said. "But the two roles have more in common than it seems. Both demand total concentration and a clear mind. In the early years you give up a lot, the usual time with friends, because you have to train with real discipline."

He first learned about Fox ESS products from another electrician about two years ago. "He told me they were the easiest systems to install," Stiak recalled. In August he visited the company's new factory in Wenzhou, China. "I had never seen anything like it. Entire halls filled with battery units, machines running everywhere, multiple production lines. I hadn't imagined it would be that scale."

The dual life helps keep him grounded. "On track I feel completely alive, the speed, the car in my hands. Coming back to work after a race weekend helps me reset. It makes me feel like a normal person again."

As both a champion driver and a working electrician who installs the products he endorses, Stiak brings unusual credibility to the conversation about performance and clean energy. The same focus that wins races also helps deliver smarter and more reliable energy systems for homes and businesses.

On October 10, Fox ESS invited key German installers to the final round of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany at Hockenheim. Guests watched the Fox-branded car compete on track and met Stiak in the team tent, where he showed them the car and talked about the precision required at racing speeds.

In the fast-moving energy storage market, competition is as intense as any race. Markets shift quickly, technology keeps advancing, and standing still means getting left behind. Just like a driver who stops improving will be overtaken on the next lap, companies that stop optimizing will lose their place. Fox ESS meets this reality with the same approach that defines champions: higher concentration on every detail, faster response to change, and smarter adaptation at every turn, always working to stay ahead.

"Higher, Faster, Smarter" is not just a slogan. It is how Fox ESS competes, innovates, and delivers.