The topic of sustainable and eco-friendly energy storage technologies is an issue of global significance. To date, this heavy burden is solely addressed by lithium-ion battery technology. However, the ongoing depletion of limited global lithium resources has restricted their future availability for Li-ion battery technology, and hence, a significant price increase is expected. This grim situation is the driving force for the development of the "beyond Li-ion battery" strategy involving alternatives that have several advantages over conventional Li-ion batteries in terms of cost, durability, safety, and sustainability. Potassium, the closest neighboring alkali element after sodium, offers some unique advantages over lithium and sodium as a charge carrier in rechargeable batteries. Potassium intercalation chemistry in potassium-ion batteries (KIBs) is successfully demonstrated to be compatible with Li-ion batteries and sodium-ion batteries. In addition to KIBs, potassium-sulfur and potassium-oxygen batteries have emerged as new energy-storage systems due to their low costs and high specific energy densities. This review covers the key technological developments and scientific challenges for a broad range of rechargeable potassium batteries, while also providing valuable insight into the scientific and practical issues concerning the development of potassium-based rechargeable batteries.in the price of lithium is primarily ascribed to the increased demand for LIB production for use in electric vehicles and energy-storage systems. For this reason, the development of sodium-ion batteries has steadily increased because SIBs and LIBs use a similar intercalation chemistry. One notable feature of an SIB is that the use of graphite, which is common in LIBs, is unfavorable owing to the difficulties associated with the insertion of Na + into the graphite interlayers. Strikingly, K + ions do intercalate into graphene layers; accordingly, graphite is available to be used as a KIB-anode material. One of the merits of a graphite anode is its favorable energy density. It is therefore possible for KIBs to compete commercially with SIBs that use hard carbon as an anode material. However, additional research is required to scale the development of KIBs to that of SIBs, at the very least. To highlight recent KIB progress, several candidate electrode materials, electrolytes, binders, and full cells are described in this review. capacity was reduced (Figure 4c,d). Notably, many voltage plateaus are associated with several phase transitions due to K + / vacancy ordering in the oxide lattice, which progresses via a P3-biphasic-O3-biphasic-X phase by analogy with the O3 phase ( Figure 4e). This phase transition is reversible during discharge to 1.5 V. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations provided