In this work, visible and EUV spectra of W have been measured using the high-temperature superconducting electron-beam ion trap at the Shanghai EBIT laboratory under extremely low-energy conditions (lower than the nominal electron beam energy of 130 eV). The relevant atomic structure has been calculated by using the flexible atomic code package based on the relativistic configuration interaction method. The GRASP2K code in the framework of the multi-configuration Dirac-Hartree-Fock method is employed as well when high-precision atomic parameters are required. The W spectra are observed 2 charge states in advance according to the ionization energy of W . A hypothesis for the charge-state evolution of W is proposed based on our experimental and theoretical results, that is, the occurrence of W ions results from indirect ionization caused by cascade excitation between some metastable states of lower-charge-state W ions, at the nominal electron beam energy of 59 eV.