6 possible reasons why your car’s losing power when accelerating

Cars are complicated things. And most of us use them so much that it can be easy to forget the sheer complexity of the processes that allow us to start the engine, drive along a road, and bring it to a stop. Unfortunately, most of us only tend to remember that again when something goes wrong – and if your engine suddenly isn’t accelerating as powerfully as you need it to when you’re out on a busy road, that can be a particularly scary reminder.