No, you can't do handbrake turns. If you press the parking brake button with a speed above 10 km/h, it will just apply the running brakes in a normal manner. It doesn't know how hard to press, so it applies them fully which means you get the same effect as if you try to press the pedal to the floor. Full brake interrupted by ABS.
It runs as long as you press the button or until the car has almost stopped. If you come down that far in speed then it applies the parking brake in the normal manner.
As long as you press the button there's a pling-pling sound going on together with typical ABS rattle.
The seemingly inverted operation of the electric parking brake is due to Volvo's desire to make it as consistent as possible. You pull to release just like you do with the cars that have a parking brake pedal. There you pull on the handle to release, and since this handle is in the same place it works in the same way.
Which in turn means you have to push to apply, since the "pull" operation is already assigned to release it.
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