An electrical connector includes: an housing including a base portion and a tongue portion; and an upper and lower rows of conductive terminals retained to the housing, each row of conductive terminals including a pair of grounding terminals at two outer ends thereof and a power terminal immediately inwardly of one of the pair of grounding terminals, each conductive terminal having a contacting section exposed to a surface of the tongue portion, a tail section extending out of the base portion, and a retaining section between the contacting section and the tail section; the power terminal has a widened section extending from the contacting section thereof toward an adjacent grounding terminal and embedded in the tongue portion; a thickness of the widened section is less than a thickness of the contacting section; a bottom surface of the widened section is lower than a bottom surface of associated contacting section.